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T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
T-Mobile sells a small GPS tracker for parents called SyncUP, which they can use to track the locations of young children who don’t have cell phones yet. After this article was originally published, a T-Mobile crisis communications manager told 404 Media: "Yesterday we fully resolved a temporary system issue with our SyncUP products that resulted from a planned technology update. For years, we’ve reported on this exact thing happening, including a case in 2018 where an app that sells spyware to parents left the pictures of hundreds of monitored children online.
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