After scandal, Verizon and AT&T stop sharing real-time cell phone location data

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A senator has strongly criticized three of the US’ largest cell carriers that have not promised to stop selling their customers’ real-time location data to third party companies.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) welcomed Verizon’s move to end its agreements with data aggregators, including LocationSmart, which sold location data to a prison tech company that claimed to be able to track any cell phone in the US “within seconds.”

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