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You may remember that last year, Verizon (which owns Oath, which owns TechCrunch) was punished by the FCC for injecting information into its subscribers' traffic that allowed them to be tracked without their consent. That practice appears to be alive and well despite being disallowed in a ruling last March: companies appear to be able to request your number, location, and other details from your mobile provider quite easily. The possibility was discovered by Philip Neustrom, co-founder of Shotwell Labs, who documented it in a blog post earlier this week. He found a pair of websites which, if visited from a mobile data connection, report back in no time with numerous details: full name, billing zip code, current location (as inferred from cell tower data), and more.

Read More @ https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/15/mobile...-who-pays/

[S3xySmurf]

Time to go low tech and break out that Nokia 3310

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I just use cheap smart phones, you can use them as burners or just swap sims cards. If you think your being tracked for some reason swap a new sims card in or toss it and grab a new one. Just because a company asks you for your information to open an account, doesn't mean you have to give them your real information.

[Drako]

My personal believe all my live, ever since smart phones started popping up was the companies that manufacture them are 100% logging your info and selling it off to other companies in god knows where just for a quick buck. I still use a Samsung but I use services with the best reputation for NOT tracking users.

[Synthx]

This really doesn't surprise me at all. I would assume that pretty much anyone would know this by now, lol.

[Oblivious]

I would recommend at all times enable private mode on your mobile browser
and use a VPN that encrypts your network traffic
I'll look more into this and see how you can avoid this happening to you

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Cell phone companies have been tracking you long before the days of smart phones, the smart phone revolution has only made it easier. In a previous life I used to have multiple cheapo phones and when I went to do business, I would pop out the battery and sims card until I was back within range of home, that way all my data usage appeared to only be in a specific location.

[Defeat]

I'm not surprised at all. I'm sure it's somewhere in the contracts too though tbh.

[VBQL]

Verizon (which owns Oath, which owns TechCrunch) was punished by the FCC for injecting information into its subscribers' traffic that allowed them to be tracked without their consent.

Exactly, because the current FCC *cough* just let it slide *cough* thanks Pai

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Alarming as It Is, It comes to no surprise.

Generally speaking, In terms of location (those not behind a VPN), the browser divulges your locality with either the browser's built-In geolocation feature, or when viewing a webpage that has JavaScript embedded In that page. In a lot of cases, the latter does not request permission, hence It's unbeknown to the user.

Cell Tower Triangulation has been around for a while and as mentioned In the Initial post here, the details/credentials obtained are significant.