AT&T and Cricket customers receive texts that their location was used by third parties

On the heels of AT&T and other carriers promising (again) to stop proving location data to data aggregation companies, many customers of AT&T its MNVO Cricket have received an interesting text message. They were informed that they had consented to sharing "phone location or other subscriber, account, and device data" with third parties, without actually having consented.

I received multiple copies of the text on my Cricket number, which prompted me to look for additional reports.

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