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 stef25 on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:39AM (#17089950)

So this is just a way to bulk identify people in a certain location at a certain time. Fairly efficient I guess but could bring up a lot of false positives, like passers by, journalists etc

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Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone lo... by coldacid on Thursday May 17, 2018 @10:59AM (#17091836)

I would think that the people who would want to bulk identify people at certain events wouldn't consider tracked journalists to be false positives.

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