T-Mobile on the largest user location sharing abuse fine: AT&T, Verizon and Sprint did worse

Did you know that T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon can triangulate where you are at any given time as long as you have your cell phone with active SIM card on you, even if your GPS is off? We bet you do, but did you know they store that location data and then resell it to "authorized" third party services in aggregated, supposedly anonymous state.

That could have crossed your information stream as well but the fact that those data aggregators then parse and down the flagpole was only fleshed out recently with various outlets doing their own investigations on the matter. ...

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