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Title seems misleading, because it doesn't seem like all carriers are stopping sharing location data... In T-Mobile's case, all they committed to doing was to "
by mehrdadn 8y ago
Title seems misleading, because it doesn't seem like all carriers are stopping sharing location data... In T-Mobile's case, all they committed to doing was to "not sell customer location data to shady middlemen."
I don't see how they would classify anybody they do business with as "shady middlemen", and I also don't see how they can't get around the word "sell" by finding a different way to share, so the commitment seems vacuous.
- colinbartlett 8y agoThese announcements and the resulting press coverage have been very frustrating to me because it seems only that carriers committed to selling data directly to the end users, eliminating the middle man. One could argue they can (and will) control the ultimate destination this way. Or one could argue they will just take a bigger share of the pie without someone marking up the data in between.
- munchbunny 8y agoYup, coming from the ad industry, that's exactly what most of the ISP's are trying to do. They're trying to vertically integrate the middle man into themselves and sell to the advertisers directly. They're competing with the middle men.
- black_puppydog 8y agoalso a bit weird that having to even mention that they don't sell to shady middlemen counts as good publicity. that kind of thing should go without saying, really.
- mehrdadn 8y agoHonestly to me it sounds more like an admission that they used to sell data to shady middlemen.
- rektide 8y ago"Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data[... to literally everyone]" more like. Verizon will still supercookie the fuck out of you though. Your physical location data may be slightly more secure, but you are DEFINITELY for sale EVERYWHERE on the internet with Verizon Wireless.
- sensor_ship 8y agoI don't understand how verizon can supercookie an unlocked generic device that only has a verizon SIM in it. If you don't have verizon apps installed, and it's not a branded handset, how are they attaching a supercookie to web browser traffic? If the traffic is secure (https), how do they change the http request headers?
- Rjevski 8y agoHTTPS traffic is immune to this, but a lot of ad/cancer is still served over HTTP, which they can inject the cookies into.
- dawnerd 8y agoGood to know non shady middlemen are fine though. T-Mobile used to be “customer first” if you believed their marketing from years ago. Now they’re pretty customer hostile.