Around 200 million people had their real-time location exposed by LocationSmart
(Android Central)

A bug allowed you to track someone`s location without obtaining their consent. Earlier this week, it was reported that a company called LocationSmart partners with U.S. carriers to sell people`s real-time location to all sorts of third parties. This news came as a rather unpleasant surprise on its own, but it`s now been discovered that a bug on LocationSmart`s website exposed the real-time location for around 200 million individuals. According to ZDNet, LocationSmart used to feature a tool on its website that allowed you to try its tracking service before you bought it. With the consent of a friend or colleague, you could use LocationSmart`s system to track their location for free. After entering your friend`s number, they`d receive a text to confirm it was okay for their location to be tracked, and you`d be able to see where in the world they`re at. However, as noted by Robert Xiao, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University — Due to a very elementary bug in the webs...