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Mobile phone companies appear to be providing your number and location to anyone who pays | TechCrunch

'But as Neustrom found out, mobile providers don’t appear to be working very hard to verify that consent. '

'Both sites provide demos of their functionality, pinging mobile providers for data and presenting it to you. '

'That practice appears to be alive and well despite being disallowed in a ruling last March: companies appear to be able to request your number, location, and other details from your mobile provider quite easily. '

'Why bother with a text-based one time password if a service can verify you’re you by querying your mobile provider?'

'He wrote back in an email:There is a very rigorous framework of security and data privacy consent. '

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