Your cell phone provider knows where you are and where you’ve been … and spreads the word

Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police.

At least tens of thousands of times a year, they hand cellphone location information to the FBI or police officers who have a court order.

They also analyze your information to send you targeted ads for their own services or from outside companies.

But, there is one person cell phone companies will not share your location information with …

You.

Click to see how your cell provider’s policies stack up

This entry was posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:06 am and is filed under Cell phones, Mobile Marketing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Jim Muzzall Says:
July 6, 2012 at 9:45 am | Reply
If you think that is creepy, you should see how your typical day of browsing in tracked in ways you don’t know. Install the Collusion Software add on to your Firefox browser (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/collusion/?src=api) after you watch the TED Talk (6 minutes, http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html) on tracking the trackers. It’s quite eye opening to see how widely your data is being shared and with whom via the node diagrams. Only takes about a minutes to install the add on to your toolbar.

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