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This was the purported intention of cellphone location tracking data. Instead it has been sold to marketers and data aggregators, and so poorly secured that li
by dogecoinbase 8y ago
This was the purported intention of cellphone location tracking data. Instead it has been sold to marketers and data aggregators, and so poorly secured that likely for over a year it's been possible to get location data via phone number as a service.
Companies and governments have demonstrated that they are not sufficiently responsible to have these databases. HIPAA-like laws and severe criminal penalties would be a start.
- candiodari 8y agoWell, we have multiple court cases to prove that one of the applications of the police's and CIA's power to monitor phone conversations is checking if your (not-quite) girlfriend is "cheating" on you and attacking, as a law enforcement officer anyone she calls. But without more government, there can't be more handouts, so ... ok ?