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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say The Citizen Lab found two separate surveillance vendors abusing the backbone of cellular networks to spy on several…

Why it matters

A useful signal for anyone monitoring vendors. The surveillance factor makes this more consequential than it first appears.

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