Sprint follows T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon by promising to stop selling user location data [telecom]

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Sprint will halt sales sometime in the coming months

By Cohen Coberly

Motherboard dropped a bombshell last week when it revealed that mobile carriers have been selling their customers' live location data to third parties.

Those third parties then sold the data to other third parties, and eventually -- through a long and complex chain of custody -- the information ended up in the hands of bounty hunters and other less-scrupulous individuals.