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Even when you carry a dumb phone, your cellular carrier tracks your location via cell tower triangulation. It's less accurate than GPS, but constant. > The FC
by GeekyBear 2y ago
Even when you carry a dumb phone, your cellular carrier tracks your location via cell tower triangulation.
It's less accurate than GPS, but constant.
> The FCC said it found the carriers each sold access to its customers’ location information to ‘aggregators,’ who then resold access to the information to third-party location-based service providers.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/fcc-fines-major-u-s-wireless-carriers-for-selling-customer-location-data/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/fcc-fines-major-u-s-wire...
- like_any_other 2y agoYou don't leave a leak in a boat unplugged just because it's not the only one.
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- knowitnone 2y agoYes except they only have your location and that may not be acceptable to some. Google on the otherhand has much more than just your location - everything you look at, everything you buy, every email/text conversation
- GeekyBear 2y agoYour cellular carrier also has your identity and your billing address. Companies that have chosen a surveillance capitalism business model have way more personal data, but they claim that they aren't selling that data to anyone willing to cut them a check the way that the carriers and app developers do. However, data hordes stored by Google/Facebook/etc are still subject to warrants, so how much do you trust that warrants will not be abused?