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Whoops: T-Mobile Reveals Names, Real-Time Locations Of Customers’ Kids

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T-Mobile has long been a hot mess on issues of security and privacy. Distracted by its problematic merger with Sprint, T-Mobile was hacked eight times in less than five years, leaking oodles of sensitive customer information onto the open web. The company was also a key player in gobbling up user sensitive location data to make money, then failing to adequately secure that data from third parties. Now T-Mobile’s back with one of its worst privac…

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A T-Mobile Bug Revealed The Location Of People's Kids To Strangers

Apps that involve people’s locations need to have the strictest standards when it comes to the actual handling of that data. After all, you don’t want your location, or the location of someone you care about, to end up in the wrong hands. Still, mistakes happen sometimes. A nightmarish mistake is happening to a number of T-Mobile customers who are having the location of their kids exposed to other parents. Creepy stuff. T-Mobile is addressing a…

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