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Cell Carriers Agree – AGAIN – To Stop Selling Your Location Data – HONEST!

Motherboard was able to buy real time location data from a broker for a T-Mobile phone for $300.  This is not illegal. The food chain for location data is very complicated. In this case, T-Mobile sold the data to data aggregator Zumigo. Zumigo sold it to Microbilt. Microbilt sold it to a bounty hunter. Who […]

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T-Mobile Sued For Lack of Security

I am always skeptical about these lawsuits.  One issue is usually “standing”, but in this case, I don’t think this will be an issue.  Often, if the party being sued thinks they are going to lose, they tend to settle, quietly, with no precedent from a court decision.  In this case, I predict this one […]

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The Cost Of A Data Breach – T-Mobile May Fire Experian

T-Mobile and Experian both announced that an Experian database containing credit application data for prospective T-Mobile customers (people who applied to finance a new phone or new phone service) between September 2013 and September 2015 was accessed by hackers.  T-Mobile outsources their credit application process to Experian, which is typical, and that is where the […]

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