U.S. carriers under fire for continuing to sell phone location data to third parties

Last year, a large number of U.S. carriers were under fire for selling live location data to third-party companies, including LocationSmart and Securus. These companies then sold that data to other companies, and so on and so forth. As you might expect, the bad publicity hasn't stopped carriers from working with those companies, as evidenced by a recent article from Motherboard.

Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox wrote, "I gave a bounty hunter a phone number.

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