All major U.S. carriers sells your real-time location info

[TomVilmer]

AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon are letting the company LocationSmart have your real-time location information and sell it. LocationSmart touts it can pinpoint someone's real-time location in just 15 seconds. This is legal thanks to a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/

[Achilleaze]

1. You can bet your ass that fatcat KGOP republican insiders will have a SPECIAL Exemption

because of course republicans are not like regular Americans, they are special (in their own minds).

[mr_lebowski]

2. Everytime I walk into a certain drugstore chain or a certain grocery store chain I get a text ...

Within 15 seconds ... it's f***ing creepy as HELL ... just sayin ...

[greymattermom]

3. They don't know your location.

They know the location of the device connected to their network. Leave it at home or turn it off and your location will be private again.

[Blues Heron]

6. defeats the purpose of having a phone

We should be able to have our phones and not be tracked.

[greymattermom]

8. If they don't know where you are

how can you use your phone at all? The network knows what tower was pinged. Location is necessary to use google maps. The problem is selling that information, not that they know it.

[Quemado]

4. Minority Report personal advertising

We getting closer and closer to personal advertising as depicted in that movie:

[Throck]

5. Fine, I'm posting from the bathroom this morning.

Fuck big brother and his evil minions.

[Girard442]

7. Assume that any data that COULD be collected HAS been collected.

Also, assume that any data that has been collected will be abused sooner or later.