Sprint becomes the last major US carrier to stop selling location data

Sprint becomes the last major US carrier to stop selling location data

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https://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-becomes-last-major-us-carrier-to-stop-selling-location-data/

"Last year we decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators, but assessed that the negative impacts to customers for services like roadside assistance and bank fraud alerts/protection that would result required a different approach," a company spokeswoman said in a statement. "We implemented new, more stringent safeguards to help protect customer location data, but as a result of recent events, we have decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators." 

The telecoms carrier joins competitors T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T, which also decided to completely end their location data sales by March. Sprint didn't set the same deadline but said it would "end these arrangements in the next several months." 

Sprint becomes the last major US carrier to stop selling location data

Jan 16, 2019, 5:32pm UTC
https://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-becomes-last-major-us-carrier-to-stop-selling-location-data/ > "Last year we decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators, but assessed that the negative impacts to customers for services like roadside assistance and bank fraud alerts/protection that would result required a different approach," a company spokeswoman said in a statement. "We implemented new, more stringent safeguards to help protect customer location data, but as a result of recent events, we have decided to end our arrangements with data aggregators."  > The telecoms carrier joins competitors T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T, which also decided to completely end their location data sales by March. Sprint didn't set the same deadline but said it would "end these arrangements in the next several months."