@ Inventor of Marmite Laser ..... TOO LATE!!!!
I have AT&T.
As I got up early this morning so I can spend most of my day on an airplane and getting to a client, I woke up to an AT&T 'free' text message. (SMS text message).
It basically said that I agreed to AT&T allowing them to share my location data with third parties.
Read this as an OPT-OUT and not an OPT-IN agreement.
Cue the lawyers..
Time to sue them and to get Congress involved.
Oh and of course if you're in the Twitterverse... feel free to share your thoughts : Tweet @ATTCares
There are many problems with this and definitely could require a scotus decision because as of right now, that information is AT&T's to sell as they please. There are already scotus cases regarding metadata and pen data that need to be updated.
What AT&T did is tantamount to slamming their customers with this OPT-OUT strategy.
Anyone know any good lawyers in the US who will do this Pro-Bono? (Or actually as a class action)
As a Big Data Professional... I'd make an excellent witness...
Oh and law enforcement would be a different matter, and isn't part of this.
Also the Flame is for AT&T not for the poster.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
