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A trustless model in which the tower can provide a connection, know the relevant endpoint location on the tower hardware only, and prevent any access to that da
by robbedpeter 5y ago
A trustless model in which the tower can provide a connection, know the relevant endpoint location on the tower hardware only, and prevent any access to that data except to law enforcement with a valid warrant. Providers don't need location data. Put in place lethal penalties for violating data privacy - if a company is caught harvesting data outside legal limits, they get fined into oblivion, and the money is split between victims and enforcement.
Being a service provider shouldn't mean an unlimited license to spy on your customers. Being a big corporation shouldn't mean you get to ignore the rules applied to individuals.
We need better laws, and we need to exclude megacorps and megamoney from the legislative process.
- gruez 5y ago>A trustless model in which the tower can provide a connection, know the relevant endpoint location on the tower hardware only but doesn't that mean you can still pinpoint people at the cell level? With cells being smaller in 5g networks, the problem is going to get worse.
- robbedpeter 5y agoYes, so make it illegal for providers to send location data anywhere other than the tower hardware, and make it corporate suicide to collect the data, except at the individual level with a specific warrant.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> Make it illegal for providers to send location data anywhere other than the tower hardware. The entire planet's mobile telephone system would then stop working. As far back as GSM, your approximate location is continually updated in the HLR/HSS database (and VLR) so the the system knows where to send the MAP SS7 paging message to tell your phone to ring when someone calls you (or where to deliver a SMS). Its a mobile network - it needs to know where you are.