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U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

| | A Little Sunshine, ATT, International Computer Science Institute, Johannes Jaskolski, LocationSmart, Nicholas Weaver, number port-out scams, Project Verify, Security Tools, Securus Technologies, SIM swap, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, UC Berkeley, verizon
The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer's phone ...
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Instagram’s New Security Tools are a Welcome Step, But Not Enough

Instagram’s New Security Tools are a Welcome Step, But Not Enough

| | Authy, Duo, facebook, Google Authenticator, Google Voice, Instagram, Security Tools, SIM swap, T-Mobile, two factor authentication, twofactorauth.org
Instagram users should soon have more secure options for protecting their accounts against Internet bad guys. On Tuesday, the Facebook-owned social network said it is in the process of rolling out support ...
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Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

| | A Little Sunshine, ATT, Coinbase, Gemini Trust, Joel Ortiz, Motherboard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, number port-out scams, Ricky Handschumacher, SIM swap scams, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Trezor, Tyler Winklevoss
Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of ...
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Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

| | 4th Amendment, A Little Sunshine, Amy Howe, ATT, Carpenter v United States, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lynch, LocationSmart, SCOTUSblog.com, Securus Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court, verizon
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, ...
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Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

Verizon to Stop Sharing Customer Location Data With Third Parties

| | A Little Sunshine, ATT, Blake Reid, Carnegie Mellon University, Karen Zacharia, Locaid, LocationSmart, Robert Xiao, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Timothy P. McKone, University of Colorado School of Law, verizon, Zumigo
In the wake of a scandal involving third-party companies leaking or selling precise, real-time location data on virtually all Americans who own a mobile phone, the four major wireless carriers have responded ...
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Sharing Information: A Day in Your Life | Federal Trade Commission

Data Brokers: You Are Being Packaged and Sold

| | Axicom, Cambridge Analytica, Choicepoint, Data Brokers, Data Brokers: You Are Being Packaged and Sold, Data Mining, Epsilon, Equifax, Experian, facebook, , Hackers, How Data Brokers Get Your Information, Information Brokers, LexisNexis, social engineering, T-Mobile, The Dangers and What You Can Do, What are Data Brokers Collecting?, What are Data Brokers?
The recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal put a spotlight on the nebulous world of data brokers and data mining. As you shop, browse the Internet, participate in a quiz, subscribe to a ...
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Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

| | A Little Sunshine, ajit pai, amazon, Andrew Smith, AOL, Apple, AT&T Mobility, ATT, CDT, comcast, CompuServe, Donald Trump, facebook, fcc, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, FTC Act, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy, Gigi Sohn, go90, google, LocationSmart, Michelle De Mooy, Net neutrality, Securus Technologies, Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Ron Wyden, Slate, Sponsored Data, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The Hill, The New York Times, Tom Wheeler, TracFone, verizon, Will Oremus
The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account ...
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Mobile Giants: Please Don’t Share the Where

Mobile Giants: Please Don’t Share the Where

| | ATT, Carnegie Mellon University, Latest Warnings, LocationSmart, Microsemi, Robert Xiao, Securus, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, Travis County Jail, verizon, Virustotal.com
Your mobile phone is giving away your approximate location all day long. This isn't exactly a secret: It has to share this data with your mobile provider constantly to provide better call ...
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T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account

T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account

| | A Little Sunshine, Instagram, Latest Warnings, number port-out scams, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm
T-Mobile is investigating a retail store employee who allegedly made unauthorized changes to a subscriber's account in an elaborate scheme to steal the customer's three-letter Instagram username. The modifications, which could have ...
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Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

| | A Little Sunshine, ATT, Data breaches, Latest Warnings, LocationSmart, Mario Proietti, panerabread.com breach, Securus, Securus Technologies, Sen. Ron Wyden, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, verizon
LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component ...
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