LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time

Re:LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Car... by chatmasta on Thursday May 17, 2018 @05:53PM (#17096327)

If we want to be really pedantic here, didn’t LocationSmart violate the CFAA? Their system queried the location of users’ devices without their consent. Does tower triangulation count as accessing the device?

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Re:LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Car... by roywiggins on Thursday May 17, 2018 @06:29PM (#17096660)

I believe the flow of info goes:

phone--carrier--LocationSmart.

The carrier determines the location of the phone because it's a cell phone. The Carrier provides the information to LocationSmart. There's no querying of the devices by LocationSmart per se.

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