Top U.S. wireless providers say they plan to stop selling consumers’ location data to a group of data brokers, shedding light on how the information is collected and used for various sales and services.
Following an investigation into the relationships between telecoms and lesser-known data brokers, Verizon said it plans to suspend relationships with data aggregators LocationSmart and Zumigo. The announcement comes after U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate how a corrections facility was able to track Americans through a third-party company called Securus Technologies, which gave corrections officers “unrestricted access” to the location of customers.
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