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Verizon, AT&T and Sprint suspend selling of customer location data after prison officials were caught misusing it

Posted on June 19, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

And then there were three. Brian Fung reports that it’s not just Verizon who has stopped selling customer location data:

Verizon, AT&T and Sprint will no longer share its customers’ location information with several third-party companies who failed to handle the data appropriately, the companies said Tuesday.

The move to cut off access follows an investigation by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) into the commercial relationships between Verizon; a pair of obscure data vendors, LocationSmart and Zumigo; and those companies’ corporate customers.

Wyden’s investigation found that one of Verizon’s indirect corporate customers, a prison phone company called Securus, had used Verizon’s customer location data in a system that effectively let correctional officers spy on millions of Americans.

Read more on The Washington Post.

 

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