All major U.S. carriers give your real-time location info to third parties
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The tech is provided by LocationSmart and seamlessly works in the background. It`s hard to believe that much of anything is truly private these days. Between smartphones, the internet, and everything else, so much of our data and lives are on full display for various businesses to see. Recently, it was discovered that all four of the major United States carriers provide your real-time location info to third-parties thanks to a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. How`d this matter come to light? Between 2014 and 2017, former sheriff Cory Hutcheson used a service called `Securus` to track the location of a judge and members of Missouri`s Highway Patrol around 11 different times. Securus is a service that allows police officers to facilitate calls made to inmates, but it can also be used to pinpoint the location of a cell phone in a matter of seconds. Securus obtains this location info from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon, but it does so through a middle-ma...