At&t To End All Location-data Sales To Data Brokers

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Thu, 01/10/2019 - 7:27pm

AT&T says it will stop selling all location data from mobile phones to brokers following a report that companies are still selling that information to shadowy companies without customer knowledge. Last year, AT&T and other carriers pledged to stop providing location information to data brokers.Read more on NewsOK.com

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