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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by bewaretheirs on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:35PM (#33512021)
I would have thought that a mobile telco could generate this data already just from what they need to route data (and voice calls) to each phone, at least to a somewhat coarse level, without needing to have apps upload this.
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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by sp332 on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:41PM (#33512100)
Yeah but they actually got in trouble for that so many times they have backed off. https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/02/us_carriers_fcc_data_...
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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by jtbayly on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:07PM (#33512467)
Yeah, they have to be able to. Something about this story just doesn't add up unless this is explained.
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Re:The most unethical thing I was asked to build while worki... by f2000 on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:21PM (#33515838)
They were after data for other carriers and/or more enriched data than they could easily collect. They could use this data for their own marketing and/or network planning. e.g. “We have the least share in market M where some significant proportion of all cellular users , based on twitter data, love NASCAR and spend relatively a lot of time on their phones at racetracks and Walmart. Lets increase capex around race tracks, do a promo with NASCAR and Walmart, and buy some appropriate ads.”
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