# Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private? — Krebs on Security - Host: [krebsonsecurity.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/krebsonsecurity.com/) - Saved: May 28, 2018 (2018-05-28T19:51:36Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a29842f560e8/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a29842f560e8.json ## What Jamie wrote This is a long article from Krebs but it’s a great read on the real world activity happening behind net neutrality. Additionally, I feel like legislative activity in this area shows the most direct line to lobbying and money-driven votes. > So the carriers are already reneging on their promise to customers that they won’t share location data without customer consent or a court order. But where does that leave us on net neutrality? The answer is that the major wireless carriers are already doing what was expressly prohibited under the FCC’s net neutrality rules: Favoring their own content over competitors, and letting companies gain more favorable access by paying more. The data that we transmit when we use our mobile devices and broadband services is immensely valuable in the market. Unless legally blocked, this data will be sold. And the sellers and buyers have no interest in your privacy or anything else about protecting you. This is the same argument I often make online with free websites like Facebook. Here I find it more appalling because we all pay, in some cases a lot, for these services! We should have an expectation of privacy. > When I first saw a Carnegie Mellon University researcher show me last week that he could look up the near-exact location of any mobile number in the United States, I sincerely believed the public would be amazed and horrified at the idea that mobile providers are sharing this real-time data with third party companies, and at the fact that those third parties in turn weren’t doing anything to prevent the abuse of their own systems. So the tinfoil hat people saying that our mobile phones are being used to track us everywhere are right. And it turns out most people seem to not care or not understand. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT56: Weekly Thing #56 / Jun 2, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/56/), Featured Links 🏅 ## Same host - [Ayuda! (Help!) Equifax Has My Data! — Krebs on Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c2caa7576038/) (krebsonsecurity.com, September 14, 2017) - [Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself — Krebs on Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8563a33ca25e/) (krebsonsecurity.com, April 10, 2018) - [When Your Employees Post Passwords Online — Krebs on Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/dc665c822b24/) (krebsonsecurity.com, May 2, 2018) - [Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing — Krebs on Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0cb4bfef23cf/) (krebsonsecurity.com, July 26, 2018) - [Marriott: Data on 500 Million Guests Stolen in 4-Year Breach — Krebs on Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4997e6b3d4e0/) (krebsonsecurity.com, December 3, 2018) ## Saved the same week - [How digital cameras work](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e2d182e6a4f6/) (datagenetics.com, May 28, 2018) - [Full Cycle Developers at Netflix – Netflix TechBlog – Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2ec5222a385a/) (medium.com, May 28, 2018) - [Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity? | Blog | InfluxData](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/90beae6cb9b8/) (influxdata.com, May 28, 2018) - [Microsoft expands data privacy tools ahead of GDPR - The Verge](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/609f38b1d219/) (theverge.com, May 28, 2018) - [China's social credit system blocked people taking 11 million flights - Business Insider](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b60abd27121a/) (businessinsider.com, May 28, 2018) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/