Why you should opt out of sharing data with your mobile provider

[thewayne]

An 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/

Comments

[silveradept]

The less of my data there is floating around to be stolen, the better. I wish it were a requirement that we started at opted-out and that everything else was opt-in, and not the kind of "well, you're going to opt-in if you want to use this service at all," that isn't a real choice.

[thewayne]

The problem is the difference from EU and USA perspectives on privacy.  Here, we're all considered exploitable resources.  There, we're more treated as private individuals.  I don't think things will improve here until there's a sea change in people demanding privacy or in corporate greed, and I don't think the latter is going to happen any time soon.

[silveradept]

The former had already been happening, but the master names sure nothing comes of it, because many politicians are loyal to those that purchase them, not the constituents they have to serve.