Large operators in America have filtered the location of their clients

Privacy is something that continues to gain relevance. Especially after events like Facebook, although we often see how companies do not treat user data in the best way. Something that the main telephone operators in the United States have revealed. Because all of them have filtered the location in real time of their clients.

Large operators in America have filtered the location of their clients

Thanks to a loophole in the privacy law of electronic communications in the United States, it has been possible for operators to filter this data from their users. So technically, everything indicates that they were not doing something illegal.

Operators filter their customers' data

The funny thing is that this news has come to light because a sheriff made use of a service called Securus between 2014 and 2017. The purpose of this service is to control the location of people and is a popular tool among the police. He did it with 11 different people. Thanks to this, it has been known that it obtains information from operators such as AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon. But, the problem is that there is a third company called LocationSmart that gets this data.

Once the company has obtained this data, what they do is sell it to third parties. In addition, in just 15 seconds they are able to obtain the user's location, they do it in the background. The problem with the law is that it is prohibited to do this, specifically to the operators. But it doesn't say anything about companies like LocationSmart that are not operators.

Therefore, it is considered one of the biggest legal loopholes in this type of law. Since the company has benefited from the services of the operators and has sold user data to third parties. There is probably a change in the law. But we will have to see how this story evolves.

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