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It's so interesting. There's a huge amount of privacy-related online REEEing about irrelevant issues, such as anonymized error telemetry in open source software.

Yet when mobile phone carriers sell your real-time location data to random entities, it seems nobody gives a damn.

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My thoughts exactly. You think they’ll ever drag the CEO of T-Mobile or Xfinity in front of Congress for privacy violations?

They might eventually. Seems like Congress is gettin' more'n more annoyed at various aspects of the tech industry as more of these crazy things keep makin' it into the news.

I mean... on the cell network, IP alone is enough to put you within a quarter mile or so.

Pretty sure these days they can triangulate you down to within something like 10-30 meters (with nothing but cell or wifi) with a pretty high degree of certainty, can't they?

With ambient WiFi signals one can get the error down to 10 meters or even less depending on coverage. This actually powers some of the location signals which Google and Apple provide in their location API’s, as it costs less battery life than GPS.

Online reeing is irrelevant, people in their hacker bubble don't realize the public at large doesn't give a shit. Google and Facebook still post increasing profits and anecdotally I still see computers without ad blockers.

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