I Know Who You Are & Where Your Device Is

Today In Corporate Big Brother

One quibble: Can't the tech fuckheads come up w/ a description for these stalking enablers other than "bounty hunter"? I was thinking that "Dog" idiot or some other two-bit wanna-be could locate my 'phone & take me into custody. Guess they could, actually. Still ...

Joseph Cox / Motherboard:

I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300.  Then He Located Our Phone  —  T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers' location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to posses it, letting them track most phones in the country.

Jon Fingas / Engadget:   It's way too easy for bounty hunters to get your phone location data
Ethan Baron / East Bay Times:   AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile selling customers' real-time locations: report
Sean Hollister / The Verge:   Carriers can sell your location to bounty hunters because ISP privacy is broken
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:   Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:   Black Market for Your Location Data Apparently Thriving Despite Privacy Vow by T-Mobile's John Legere and Others
more at Techmeme »

Big Nazi Corporate Bro. has you all by the reproductive organs. Ha ha.