A new bombshell report from Joseph Cox over at Motherboard details how carriers like Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile are all in the business of selling real-time location data of subscribers. While this in and of itself isn’t a new development, Motherboard reveals that this location data far too often ends up in the hands of bounty hunters who are willing to give up an individual’s location for the right price.
Cox himself used himself as a guinea pig of sorts and paid a bounty hunter $300 to help him track down the location of a friend who agreed to be part of the experiment. The bounty hunter, armed with only the phone number of the target, was able to track down the target’s location to a hyper-specific area and sent a snapshot of the location via Google Maps.
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Bombshell report reveals how location data from carriers often ends up in the wrong hands originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 23:05:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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