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The headline could have been rewritten as: "Four companies that nobody trusts want to manage your identity across websites and apps." Seriously from the T mob
by bogomipz 8y ago
The headline could have been rewritten as:
"Four companies that nobody trusts want to manage your identity across websites and apps."
Seriously from the T mobile data breaches affecting millions[1], to Verizon's injecting of X-UIDH headers[2], to AT&Ts work with the NSA[3] to the selling of location data by all four mentioned in the article, there is absolutely nothing trusty-worth about any of these companies. It's like cognitive dissonance. Maybe they could include credit monitoring by the 3 completely untrustworthy credit reporting agencies and the service would be feature complete in its' absurdity.
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/10/01/t-mobile-breach-may-have-exposed-15-million-records/73171066/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/10/01/t-mobile-brea...
[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh
[3] https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/ https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hub...
- unstatusthequo 8y agoI still trust T-Mobile more than the other two, despite the breach. AT&T and Verizon are NSA toadies. Maybe I’m näive but it doesn’t seem like T-Mobile is so much in bed with the fed. NSA surveillance is a constant breach, no?
- bogomipz 8y agoI don't think that T-Mobile turns over any less data though: https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobiles-transparency-report-reveals-352000-customer-data-requests/ https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobiles-transparency-report-reve... At any rate the bar seems pretty low in that group.