The carriers sold “real-time location information to data aggregators, allowing this highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said in a statement.
“Smartphones are always with us, and as a result these devices know where we are at any given moment,” Rosenworcel said. Citing the sensitivity of geolocation data, she added, “In the wrong hands, it can provide those who wish to do us harm the ability to locate us with pinpoint accuracy.”
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I was in the miraikan museum in Tokyo once where they had a whole exposition on tracking masses in order to optimize traffic flow (pedestrian, car and public transit). A big part of the 3xpo was the privacy first approach. They u derstood that in order to get I to the real traffic patterns they would have to record vast amounts of sensitive data and went through great lengths to protect privacy.
I wish this was more common.