News broke earlier this year that several firms with access to carrier location data were providing access to it with little or no safeguards. In fact, you could access the some of these tools to track a phone as a demo of the service. AT&T and Verizon now say they will stop selling data to these third-party brokers. That does not mean, however, they won't sell your location data at all.
This issue came to the fore earlier this year when a former sheriff was charged with illegally using a phone location service 11 times without securing a court order.
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