{"id":1241,"date":"2019-07-19T02:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2019-07-19T02:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:33:27","slug":"legal-trend-suing-telecommunications-companies-that-sell-location-data-to-bounty-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legal-trend-suing-telecommunications-companies-that-sell-location-data-to-bounty-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal TREND. Suing Telecommunications Companies that sell Location Data to Bounty Hunters."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a class action lawsuit against AT&amp;T +  2  data brokers over the sale of AT&amp;T customers&#8217; real-time location data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this common? Tech types say all the telecoms sell real time location data to  location aggregators to bounty hunters and bail bondsman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>What state laws are we talking about? A state&#8217;s deceptive trade practices act + data protection and privacy laws<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/43j99g\/eff-hits-atandt-with-class-action-lawsuit-for-selling-customers-location-to-bounty-hunters\">Motherboard | EFF Hits AT&amp;T With Class Action Lawsuit for Selling Customers\u2019 Location to Bounty Hunters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a class action lawsuit against AT&amp;T + 2 data brokers over the sale of AT&amp;T customers&#8217; real-time location data Is this common? Tech types say all the telecoms sell real time location data to location aggregators to bounty hunters and bail bondsman What state laws are we talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}