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New: Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint hit with class action lawsuits after we found telcos selling customers' location data to companies which then provided it to bounty hunters. Cases claim telcos broke Federal Communications Act; didn't protect data https://t.co/2UksuL22Dm
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) May 4, 2019
Here are the class action complaints against telcos for selling their customers' location data:
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) May 4, 2019
Verizon https://t.co/NVr0TtrUPG
T-Mobile https://t.co/qS247VaKgs
Sprint https://t.co/rCmYZPBAqy
AT&T https://t.co/TKC90wfU10 pic.twitter.com/pN3XVNyddc
This is good news.
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) May 5, 2019
Third-party selling of data:
1. Largely unbeknownst to the user
2. Doesn't benefit the user in any way
3. Merely an ancillary attempt to squeeze more money out of data (for an already paid service)
should be litigated/regulated out of existence. https://t.co/vomjjgjaP8
The Verizon lawsuit focuses on the Securus case, which Senator Wyden/The New York Times found in 2018 (https://t.co/u7WB7BggIO). But, remember we ~did~ find Verizon also sold customers' data which ended up with bail bondsmen/bounty hunters, another company https://t.co/ausifWZXmu
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) May 4, 2019
Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data https://t.co/0VjumLXQdf
— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) May 5, 2019
Motherboard Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data: The lawsuits come after a Motherboard investigation showed AT&T, Sprint,… https://t.co/LLYitaYJjF #bountyHunters #Verizon #classactionlawsuits Via @motherboard pic.twitter.com/gRYOjmYpMT
— Bradley Jon Eaglefeather (@bjeaglefeather) May 5, 2019
Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data https://t.co/KfVAPiXIFN @motherboard @josephfcox #privacy
— David Bisson (@DMBisson) May 5, 2019