Topic 2: Customer Location Data
Topic 2: Customer Location Data
This week you read the article
“Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Suspend Selling of Customer Location Data (web page). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/19/verizon-will-suspend-sales-of-customer-location-data-after-a-prison-phone-company-was-caught-misusing-it/?noredirect=on
Discussion:
Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint will no longer share its customers’ location information with several third-party companies who failed to handle the data appropriately.
Question #1:
Do you agree with phone companies sharing their customers’ information with third-party companies? Why or why not? Support your answer.