{"id":21091,"date":"2014-10-31T02:35:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=21091"},"modified":"2014-10-31T02:35:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T01:35:38","slug":"phone-companies-tracking-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/phone-companies-tracking-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Companies Tracking Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired and Forbes report earlier that the two largest cellphone carriers in the United States, Verizon and AT&amp;T, are adding the tracking number to their subscribers&#8217; Internet activity, even when users opt out.<\/p>\n<p>The data can be used by any site \u2013 even those with no relationship to the telecoms &#8212; to build a dossier about a person&#8217;s behavior on mobile devices \u2013 including which apps they use, what sites they visit and for how long.<\/p>\n<p>MoPub, acquired by Twitter in 2013, bills itself as the &#8220;world&#8217;s largest mobile ad exchange.&#8221; It uses Verizon&#8217;s tag to track and target cellphone users for ads, according to instructions by devleopers posted on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter declined to comment.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?attachment_id=21092\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>\u00a0 Who is Tracking You<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/phone-companies-tracking-customers\/phone-companies-tracking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Phone-Companies-Tracking.jpg\" alt=\"Phone Companies Tracking\" width=\"546\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Phone-Companies-Tracking.jpg 546w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Phone-Companies-Tracking-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Phone-Companies-Tracking-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Phone-Companies-Tracking-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/>Phon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired and Forbes report earlier that the two largest cellphone carriers in the United States, Verizon and AT&amp;T, are adding the tracking number to their subscribers&#8217; Internet activity, even when users opt out. 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