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Comment by lotsofpulp

8 years ago

If the mobile carriers are selling your real time location data, I don't think there is much stopping them from also selling your browser user agents.

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tome  8 years ago

I believe that dmichulke means that when the phone number is linked to the user agent it's much more dangerous than when they are sold without that connection being known.

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