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AT&T and T-Mobile Say They'll Stop Selling User Location Data

Third-party partnerships could end in March

AT&T paid a reported $1.6 billion for AppNexus in 2018.Getty Images
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By Marty Swant

January 11, 2019

AT&T and other telecom companies say they plan to stop selling sensitive customer location data to third parties.

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Marty Swant

Marty Swant is a former technology staff writer for Adweek.

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