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2019-01-11 -Land of the Free

AT&T says it'll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-11 01:13|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 "...We most emphatically have not done anything wrong, and we'll never do it again."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-01-11 04:53|| 2019-01-11 04:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, they thought if they were giving it on demand, to the government, why shouldn't they be able to sell it too?

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-11 06:16|| 2019-01-11 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 "Abusing customers has always been our highest goal at AT&T. It's a tradition."

Posted by ed in texas 2019-01-11 07:11|| 2019-01-11 07:11|| Front Page Top

#4 They're not ending the arrangement until March, to give "some" of the third time parties time to "transition," presumably to a new arrangement that is out of sight and off the books.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-11 07:47|| 2019-01-11 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Thinking the same thing Murcek. Middleware drop company washing the data. Noting nothing will change informing on their customers.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-01-11 13:28|| 2019-01-11 13:28|| Front Page Top

#6 They'll just switch over to WeatherChannel or whichever one got busted for that last week.

Posted by gorb 2019-01-11 14:11|| 2019-01-11 14:11|| Front Page Top

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