Data Broker LocationSmart Will Fight Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling AT&T Data

A broker that helped sell AT&T customers' real-time location data says it will fight a class action lawsuit against it. From a report: The broker, called LocationSmart, was involved in a number of data selling and cybersecurity incidents, including selling location data that ended up in the hands of bounty hunters. "LocationSmart will fight this lawsuit because the allegations of wrongdoing are meritless and rest on recycled falsehoods," a LocationSmart spokesperson said in an emailed statement. LocationSmart did not point to any specific part of the lawsuit to support these claims. On Tuesday, activist group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and law firm Pierce Bainbridge filed a class action lawsuit against LocationSmart, another data broker called Zumigo, and telecom giant AT&T. The lawsuit's plaintiffs are three California residents who say they did not consent to AT&T selling their real-time location data through the data brokers. The lawsuit alleges all three companies violated the California Constitutional Right to Privacy, and seeks monetary damages as well as an injunction against AT&T to ensure the deletion of any sold data.

We need mod points specifically for ACs

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Off-topic for the story, but on-topic for the comments on this story so far: I have and continue to support AC posting on Slashdot, but there have been an increasing number of posts lately which are just random racist remarks or which slander certain posters without contributing anything of value. Mod points can address this, but if you spend all your mod points on the racists then you've got nothing left over for modding actual comments. I think this needs to be addressed somehow.

One option could be to

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APK is off his meds again, we just need to wait till someone forces him to start taking them again i guess.