#locationsmart

Here’s a nifty diagram of the location tracking ecosystem I made in 2011 as part of my Senate testimony.   It’s still relevant today. LocationSmart and Securus are examples of ’Location Aggregators’ - and they get your info directly from carriers’ APIs

US, Canadian carriers selling real-time cell-phone location-data to police

The company embroiled in a privacy row has “direct connections” to all major US wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint — and Canadian cell networks, too.

14 May 2018 | Zack Whittaker | ZDNet

Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you’ve probably never heard about before.

In case you missed it, a senator last…

This is the biggest privacy scandal hardly anyone is talking about

“We are in the midst of a major and worrying data privacy scandal — but you probably haven’t heard about it,” Mike Peterson writes for iDropNews. “To put it in the simplest terms possible: Law enforcement entities can figure out exactly where you are, at this very minute, using your smartphone. All without your knowledge.”

“This is because the largest telecom companies in the U.S. —…

Местонахождение 200 млн абонентов сотовой связи может узнать любой желающий

Брешь в защите сайта LocationSmart позволяет малоопытному хакеру отследить местоположение миллионов американцев и канадцев по телефонному номеру. Эти данные LocationSmart получает от крупных сотовых операторов США и Канады. Уже были зафиксированы случаи использования этой информации правоохранителями без ордера.

«Дыра» в LocationSmart

В сервисе LocationSmart, располагающего данными о…

Website flaw exposed most U.S. cellphones’ real-time locations

“A website flaw at a California company that gathers real-time data on cellular wireless devices could have allowed anyone to pinpoint the location of any AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile cellphone in the United States to within hundreds of yards, a security researcher said,” Frank Bajak reports for The Associated Press. “The company involved, LocationSmart of Carlsbad, operates in a…

FCC investigating LocationSmart over phone-tracking flaw

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Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has called for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to recuse himself from the agency’s investigation. 

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LocationSmart boasted that it could find any phone in the US. Now the company is finding itself under investigation.

The Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into…

FCC investigating LocationSmart over phone-tracking flaw

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Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, has called for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to recuse himself from the agency’s investigation. 

Alex Wong / Getty Images

LocationSmart boasted that it could find any phone in the US. Now the company is finding itself under investigation.

The Federal Communications Commission has opened an investigation into…