Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data
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Re: Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data
#2This is awesome. I was seriously considering not carrying a cell phone over this.
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#3I bet there's a whole bunch of caveats attached. How old is not "real-time" data? Can I buy where your phone was yesterday?
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#4Unless Locationsmart (and the other shady data brokers like "zumigo") goes under then it's pretty clear that there's some serious caveats in this alleged stopping of sharing location data.
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#5Title seems misleading, because it doesn't seem like all carriers are stopping sharing location data... In T-Mobile's case, all they committed to doing was to "not sell customer location data to shady middlemen."
I don't see how they would classify anybody they do business with as "shady middlemen", and I also don't see how they can't get around the word "sell" by finding a different way to share, so the commitment seems vacuous.
Re: Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data
#6Yeah right. They'll find a way to sell it while claiming they don't share it.
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#7So are they selling access to the SS7 network? Or just a continually updated dataset?
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#8Why was this even Ok in the first place? How did this get through the system? I thought you had to have warrants and things. While this is better news, it leads to questions others have pointed out.. such as what is considered real-time, and how old data could be to be not considered real-time, and sell that instead.
Re: Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data
#9Title seems misleading, because it doesn't seem like all carriers are stopping sharing location data... In T-Mobile's case, all they committed to doing was to "not sell customer location data to shady middlemen." I don't see how they would classify anybody they do business with as "shady middlemen", and I also don't see how they can't get around the word "sell" by finding a different way to share, so the commitment s…
These announcements and the resulting press coverage have been very frustrating to me because it seems only that carriers committed to selling data directly to the end users, eliminating the middle man. One could argue they can (and will) control the ultimate destination this way. Or one could argue they will just take a bigger share of the pie without someone marking up the data in between.
Re: Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data
#10Yeah right. They'll find a way to sell it while claiming they don't share it.
Today: They won't sell real time data anymore.
Tomorrow : Sell one minute delayed...