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 908087 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:26PM (#17083683)

If they "don't generally care", they wouldn't be collecting that data to begin with.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by wilsonnb on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:02PM (#17085405)

It's possible that they care about the aggregated data and not about the individual data.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by fixermark on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:39PM (#17083834)

They collect the data because they can find themselves needing to care in the future, at which point nobody wants to be kicking themselves for failing to collect the data.

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by ionised on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:50AM (#17090497)

So they do care.

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