On: Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data

[_mulder_]

>At some point a telecom is going to realize that they could make a tidy profit by selling location traffic data to third parties, and that sort of thing needs to be prevented in law.

The year 1990 called and wants it's comment back!

[antimagic → _mulder_]

You're saying that telecoms are already selling the data? Or that there are already laws preventing the sale of such data?

[hnha → antimagic]

They sell it. See eg Vodafone and tomtom for a publicized example.