IS AT&T SELLING YOUR LOCATION DATA?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sued AT&T and two aggregators for allegedly disclosing customers location data.  The suit says that AT&T has sold its customers real-time location data to credit agencies, bail bondsmen, and other third parties without consent or any legal authority.  The suit was filed in a Northern California U.S. District Court.

EFF is seeking an injunction prohibiting AT&T, LocationSmart and Zumigo, from disclosing customers geolocation data in violation of federal or state law. This same practice was exposed by Motherboard in an investigative piece of journalism. In the Motherboard article the carrier was T-Mobile.

Today, the four major U.S. carriers said they no longer cell location data.  EFF says the organization believes a court order is still necessary to get to the bottom of the issue. An AT&T spokesperson said, "We only share location data with customer consent. We stopped sharing location with aggregators after reports of misuse."