[Newsbot]

Title: US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data
Category: Tech
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2018-05-15 12:09:48
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

And now, the company 'aggregating' all the data has been hacked.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... any-hacked

[DrCaleb]

Dammit, original link is pooched.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-c ... tion-data/

[BartSimpson]

Well....we don't have a right to privacy.

Seems to me we need to fix that with a Constitutional Amendment.

Ironically I'm right now on a webinar about the GDPR.

[Thanos]

Mere capitalism. Someone made money somewhere from this idea therefore it is beyond criticism.

[raydan]

Just the price of doing business... assume the position, consumers.

[herbie]

Must've released some cell user data in Canada too. Everyone I know is griping that they started getting many unsolicited junk calls in the last 2 weeks.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

Mere capitalism. Someone made money somewhere from this idea therefore it is beyond criticism.

It's not illegal, don'tchaknow!

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Ironically I'm right now on a webinar about the GDPR.

They know how to do privacy right! The fact that so many business are complaining about it shows that they are moving in the right direction.

On the BBC "Business Daily" I heard one small company say that they couldn't manage the new rules without an army of lawyers and programmers and they were only 3 people. Well hey lady, did you think about NOT collecting all this data on people?