US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by techpop10 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:48PM (#15480543)

Which is why every European country except Germany has dozens of cameras on every corner?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by kbart on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:20AM (#15481877)

But (at least in most countries) these records are only available to police and with written request, one by one basis.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:39PM (#15485603)

or to anyone connected to the internet

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by kbart on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:16AM (#15488838)

You can't leave unprotected access by law, because you, as a camera owner, are responsible for personal information stored as a record. If you talking about hacking, I wouldn't worry too much -- anything can be hacked and there are much more cost effective ways to obtain personal information in millions than hacking cameras one-by-one.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:34AM (#15490384)

You can't leave unprotected access by law

Yeah, nice theory :)

---

I wouldn't worry/care about individual hackers, but even if you have complete trust in everyone who has or will have legal access there are a lot of organizations for which hacking cameras one-by-one (even if hacking is actually needed) is well worth the effort.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by SamBoogieNYC on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:36AM (#15481299)

This is simply false

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:40PM (#15485608)

Do you have any substantiation of "except Germany"?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by ceejayoz on Sunday October 15, 2017 @11:16PM (#15480612)

Those corners would be public spaces, right?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to c... by g-b-r on Monday October 16, 2017 @03:05PM (#15485789)

You have a messed-up idea of privacy, there can be various degrees of it and having a few people see you in a certain place at a certain time has a slightly different impact than having someone (potentially) analyze what you do in a large amount of your life, even if that happens in "public spaces".

I know your idea is the same as that of the USA law, but that really doesn't make it right

[ Parent | on HN ]