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The law that would have prevented this breach would be to make it illegal for telcos to sell customer data. The reason AT&T was feeding ALL the data to Snowflake was to sell their customer's location and social graph to marketers. It is unconscionable to me that this in not currently the law.

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Do you have a source for that claim?

* https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-largest-wireless-carr...

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunte...

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vqkv/how-fbi-gets-phone-da...

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/3a87bv/fcc-propose-fines-ver...

* https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/fcc-fines-major-u-s-wire...

Joseph Cox is basically the only investigative journalist that digs into constant PII violations before the leaks happen.

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Here's Snowflake bragging about helping telcos sell location data: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/telecom-data-partnerships/

So if I buy a car with an advertised top speed of 200 mph, it's given that I must be violating speed limits when driving it?

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