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 raesene9 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:26PM (#17083682)

Not sure anyone would lose their jobs.

1) Be an investigative Journalist

2) Purchase access to these location vendors data

3) Correlate data with known mobile numbers of politicians

4) Find things in data that might be of interest to readers (e.g. "politician x was noted to be in the same place as Lobbyist y on 5 different occasions")

5) Publish Story :)

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by georgek on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:24PM (#17087568)

The more titillating version would be to crawl Backpage or similar successor service for phone numbers of escorts and correlate that with known phone numbers of public figures such as politicians to determine when both were in the same place at the same time. Then publish client lists, with links back to original escort ads for extra sensarionalism.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by cryoshon on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @05:29PM (#17086669)

pay me the cost of a data set plus 6k for a month's labor and i'll do it.

still need an outlet for the story though

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by dserodio on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:08PM (#17087817)

The Intercept would probably be interested in publishing something like this

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by cryoshon on Thursday May 17, 2018 @09:42AM (#17091172)

yeah, but we'd need to make it first. like i said, i'd do it myself if i didn't have to maintain my moneymaking elsewhere.

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