U.S. Telcos Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls

Around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to ATT, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data, according to documents obtained by Motherboard. Motherboard found that an individual company made more than 18,000 data location requests through a data broker; other companies made thousands of requests. Image: Motherboard

Between at least 2012 until it closed in late 2017, a now-defunct data seller called CerCareOne allowed bounty hunters, bail bondsmen, and bail agents to find the real-time location of ATT, T-Mobile, and Sprint mobile phones.

Source: motherboard.vice.com