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The phone company is still tracking your IMSI/IMEI, and they sell data too. The former is directly linked to your identity; the latter also trivially so for mos

• pnw 4y ago
  I understand there is a separate level of privacy issues caused by phone companies selling data, but all of the reports refer to data collected from apps which can't be IMSI/IMEI since that's not available from apps?
  • juunpp 4y ago
    Phone companies track you by virtue of your phone talking to cell towers, and they do sell your data. What OS or software you run on the phone is irrelevant. Recent versions of Android do not allow user-level applications to read the IMEI/IMSI as far as I know, but that was not always the case. And in any case, it doesn't prevent the carrier from tracking you. https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces... https://www.wired.com/story/carriers-sell-location-data-third-parties-privacy/ https://www.wired.com/story/carriers-sell-location-data-thir... https://www.ccmihub.com/blog/fcc-fines-mobile-providers-selling-real-time-customer-location-data https://www.ccmihub.com/blog/fcc-fines-mobile-providers-sell... https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/06/at-t-verizon-sprint-and-t-mobile-reportedly-sell-your-location-data/1118511001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/06/at-t-verizon-... https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-selling-your-location-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...