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Sprint To Stop Selling Location Data To Third Parties (vice.com)
After AT&T and T-Mobile said they would stop selling their customers' phone location data to third parties, Sprint has followed suit. From a report: Last week, Motherboard revealed that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint had been selling their customers' real-time location data that ultimately ended up in the hands of bounty hunters and people unauthorized to handle it. Motherboard found this by purchasing the capability to geolocate a phone for $300 on the black market. In response, AT&T and T-Mobile said they were stopping all sales of location data to third parties.
Nearly a week later Sprint has committed to doing the same, in a statement to Motherboard. "As a result of recent events, we have decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators," a Sprint spokesperson told Motherboard in an email. Sprint did not provide a timeline of when this data access selling may end, but T-Mobile and AT&T have previously said their processes will be complete in March.
Nearly a week later Sprint has committed to doing the same, in a statement to Motherboard. "As a result of recent events, we have decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators," a Sprint spokesperson told Motherboard in an email. Sprint did not provide a timeline of when this data access selling may end, but T-Mobile and AT&T have previously said their processes will be complete in March.
Sprint, like all the others, is just negotiating a big price increase for their customer's location data.
These are corporations people, if they could figure out how to kill you and continue to make money, they would.
Or of course, you could just take them at their word.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
This likely will be frowned upon by the shareholders, who see their payout shrink, and force the telecompanies to compensate by hiking up subscription prices.