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thewayneAn excellent article on how your private data gets shared and what you can do about it.
The WHY you should is pretty simple: 9 million AT&T customers were compromised in a hack at an advertising affiliate, T-Mobile has had 70 million accounts compromised in the last decade or so, etc.
These data breeches are so common as to be ridiculous. And that information can be used against you in possible fraud schemes. As an article that I posted recently said, Americans lost a record amount to fraud schemes in 2022, and breeches like these help fuel said schemes.
The article explains how to opt-OUT of data sharing for the Big Three: AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/why-you-should-opt-out-of-sharing-data-with-your-mobile-provider/
The WHY you should is pretty simple: 9 million AT&T customers were compromised in a hack at an advertising affiliate, T-Mobile has had 70 million accounts compromised in the last decade or so, etc.
These data breeches are so common as to be ridiculous. And that information can be used against you in possible fraud schemes. As an article that I posted recently said, Americans lost a record amount to fraud schemes in 2022, and breeches like these help fuel said schemes.
The article explains how to opt-OUT of data sharing for the Big Three: AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/03/why-you-should-opt-out-of-sharing-data-with-your-mobile-provider/
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Date: 2023-03-23 02:30 am (UTC)Updated the next day: apparently, I've been disallowing such data-sharing app by app as I go along already.
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Date: 2023-03-24 09:06 pm (UTC)Good man!