Mobile carriers are selling your real time location to anyone willing to pay. The number of nefarious uses for real time location is immense

And meanwhile, the press is worked up about cambridge analytica accessing your facebook friend network.

It seems like someone ought to put a site with real time locations of our senators and congressmen. My guess is that will solve the problem quickly.

Pretty much the best idea to get action on this.

For congressman and senators. Not for peons, I assume.

All the mobile carriers in the US are shit at keeping your data secure, real time data has been leaked on one hand, comcast leaked home addresses and wifi router login details on the other, article is calling out Ajit Pai for trying to repeal 2015 privacy rules amongst said bullshit.

and im her in europe basking under the protective blanket of the GDPR (which sounds too similar to the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik for my tastes))

German Democratic Peoples Republic ;-)

oh God, I knew I had heard it somewhere before