Friday, 11 January 2019

T-Mobile & Sprint promise user location data sharing will soon stop

Following a story published earlier this week by Motherboard which shed a light on US carrier practices regarding the sale of user location data, T-Mobile and Sprint have today announced that they are in the process of revoking third-party access to this data.

In a statement to The Verge, a Sprint spokesperson said that it will no longer “knowingly share personally identifiable” location data, the only exception to this rule being legal requests. Similarly, T-Mobile confirmed that it’s in the process of revoking access to all third parties, with CEO John Legere stating on Twitter that the ...

from PhoneArena http://bit.ly/2VIp0Oj

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