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Re:Deputy US Marshal Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Cell Phone L... by runlevel1 on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:07PM (#36658360)
Your cell phone company knows your name, address, and can infer where you've been based on the cell towers your phone checks in with. So that one's a given.

Here's a sampling of others:

Mastercard sells information on your purchases.[^1] (Based on the info Oracle had on me, I suspect they might be one of the sources for Oracle Advertising.[^2])

Equifax, who gets information from your bank, your car insurance company, your cable company, and loads of other places, makes a nice profit off selling your info.[^3][^4]

ISPs know who you are, can infer a lot about you from unencrypted DNS queries and HTTPS SNI snooping, and they're happy to sell information about you.[^5]

Then there are several tiers of companies that buy information from various other companies, aggregate it, and then sell that off. A veritable snowball rolling down a hill of privacy violation.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2012/10/mastercard-data-mining-holiday...

[2]: https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/request-your-data/verify-...

[3]: https://www.inc.com/associated-press/equifax-data-money.html

[4]: https://www.equifax.com/about-equifax/why-equifax/differenti...

[5]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93b9nv/internet-service-prov...

Re:Deputy US Marshal Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Cell Phone L... by ianlevesque on Sunday July 09, 2023 @04:35PM (#36658606)
And for completeness, here’s an article about the telecoms themselves: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/19...