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DC Appeals Court Shoots Down T-Mobile Claim That Selling Your Location Data Without Consent Is Perfectly Legal
In a rare win for U.S. consumer privacy, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled unanimously against T-Mobile and its subsidiary Sprint, upholding (for now) a $92 mil…
Though this behavior had been going on for years generating untold billions, it only gained mainstream attention thanks to a 2018 New York Times story showcasing how police and the prison system routinely bought access to this data and then failed completely to secure it. They’ve had particular success on this front in the Trump era, thanks to radical Supreme Court rulings like Loper Bright and the Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. One, because widespread privacy abuses and the resulting dysfunction are wildly profitable for unethical companies, and two, because the U.S. government likes the ability to buy sensitive data as a means to bypass warrants.
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