Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people\'s location data yet again

is the biggest Neoliberal parasite ever. I would stay away from IT

And go after the executives themself.

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/01/08/1918205/us-telcos-are-selling-access-to-their-customers-location-data-and-that-data-reaches-bounty-hunters-and-others-not-authorized-to-possess-it

<i>Nervously, I gave a bounty hunter a phone number. He had offered to geolocate a phone for me, using a shady, overlooked service intended not for the cops, but for private individuals and businesses. Armed with just the number and a few hundred dollars, he said he could find the current location of most phones in the United States. The bounty hunter sent the number to his own contact, who would track the phone. The contact responded with a screenshot of Google Maps, containing a blue circle indicating the phone’s current location, approximate to a few hundred metres. […] The bounty hunter did this all without deploying a hacking tool or having any previous knowledge of the phone’s whereabouts. Instead, the tracking tool relies on real-time location data sold to bounty hunters that ultimately originated from the telcos themselves, including T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint, a Motherboard investigation has found. These surveillance capabilities are sometimes sold through word-of-mouth networks.</i>

eom

senator Wyden?

who decides whos shady?  I consider most corporations pretty shady, for example.