Monday, April 23, 2012

Thanks ATT for Working for Me - Your Customer

Remember me?  I'm your customer...  I send you a payment every month.

Wireless companies are opposing an important new mobile privacy bill in California (SB 1434) because they say they are too busy “working day and night to assist law enforcement,” so it would be too much of a burden to tell their customers how often and why they are turning over location data to law enforcement.

Every moment of every day, our mobile devices track our location, and our cell providers collect and retain this information. Our location data—where we go and what we do—is sensitive information. Wireless companies should be working day and night for us—their customers—not for law enforcement.

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