AT&T Will Start Anonymously Selling Your Location Data To Marketers

AT&T updated its privacy policy last week with a notice that it plans to start selling anonymous location data about its customers to marketers.

AT&T will start to sell yout location data

Although the policy was updated on June 28, news sites like Fierce Wireless just picked up on it this week. 

Here's the kind of information AT&T will be selling: your location based on WiFi networks you connect to, Web browsing data, and apps you use.

AT&T will start to sell your location data to marketers | Business Insider

AT&T hacker and internet troll 'Weev' appeals 41-month prison sentence

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Monday filed an appeal seeking to free Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, the hacker and self-described internet troll who exploited a hole in AT&T's publicly facing website to siphon the personal data of some 114,000 iPad owners.

AT&T hacker sentenced

Ultimately, Auernheimer was the catalyst behind AT&T fixing the gaping security hole he climbed through to get that information. He's currently serving a 41-month sentence at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex in White Deer, Pennsylvania, in the US.

AT&T hacker sentenced | Naked Security