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Cricket's Privacy Policy looks much better than T-Mobile's or Google Fi's:

"We will not sell your personal information to anyone, for any purpose. Period." https://www.cricketwireless.com/privacy

But they also say that they may share personal information (which may include location??) to 3rd parties with user "consent":

"Do you share my Personal Information with other companies for them to market to me?

We may share your Personal Information with AT&T and other AT&T affiliates for a variety of purpose, including so that they can market products and services to you. Except for AT&T and other AT&T affiliates, we will not share your Personal Information with other companies for them to use for the marketing of their own products and services without your consent."

Can someone with Cricket Wireless see if LocationSmart has access to their location https://www.locationsmart.com/try/ ?

I'm on Cricket Wireless and I tried at your link, but I'm not getting the SMS message.

That either means LocationSmart doesn’t have access to location data from Cricket, or it’s not working for some other reason.

LocationSmart’s website says they can get location of 95% of cell phones in the US. I’m tempted to try and call their sales department and see if they would tell me which carriers they don’t support...

I think a big question is since Cricket is an MVNO that runs on AT&T's network, is AT&T able to sell a Cricket customer's location data?

Looks like Cricket will give personal information to AT&T:

"Cricket is an AT&T company and we share your Personal Information with AT&T and other companies in the AT&T family, commonly referred to as affiliates, for a variety of purposes, including the marketing of products and services to you." https://www.cricketwireless.com/privacy

The "variety of purposes" is what concerns me, and is why I have learned to hate trying to understand Privacy Policies. There are too many potential loopholes. Of course, I am not a lawyer, so my interpretation may be incorrect.

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