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Phone Companies Promise Changes After Location Data Ends Up On Black Market

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January 14, 2019

A man walks through the afternoon shadows on the tile floor at Grand Central Terminal in New York on Aug. 23, 2017. (Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images)

U.S. wireless carriers are promising changes after a reporter for the website Motherboard revealed they were selling user location data to third parties. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson speaks with the reporter, Joseph Cox (@josephfcox).

This segment aired on January 14, 2019.

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