AT&T and other telecom companies say they plan to stop selling sensitive customer location data to third parties.
The decision, announced on Thursday evening, comes days after an investigation by Motherboard found how easily it can be to access location data for AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint customers. The report, which chronicled a journalist hiring a bounty hunter to track down their cell phone location using telecom data, led to several lawmakers calling for an investigation into the practice of data sharing.
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