US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data

Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by dmichulke on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:26AM (#17082639)

I'm somewhat weary. This might be the final missing piece to connect your mobile phone number to your mobile browser user agent, or even worse, your desktop browser agent.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by lotsofpulp on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:53AM (#17082859)

If the mobile carriers are selling your real time location data, I don't think there is much stopping them from also selling your browser user agents.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by tome on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:02AM (#17082944)

I believe that dmichulke means that when the phone number is linked to the user agent it's much more dangerous than when they are sold without that connection being known.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by tome on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:32AM (#17082690)

*wary

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by RobotCaleb on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:48AM (#17082818)

Or leery

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by tome on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:51AM (#17082842)

Interesting. I wonder if the mistaken use of "weary" comes from a combination of "wary" and "leery"! I always assumed it was because "wear" is pronounced the same as the first syllable of "wary". Unfortunately "weary" is already a word and "I'm wary of X" has a different meaning from "I'm weary of X", but similar enough that a lot of confusion could result.

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