Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History

• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  T-mobile customer names and addresses

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This info isn’t difficult to get.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It sure isn’t legally public available either.

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      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s available for, legally (unless they’re a Senator or House Representative), for anybody with money.

        There are no privacy laws in the US, there’s no law that they can violate by selling data about you and since that data is worth money then it gets sold openly.

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      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The names and addresses of people using T-Mobile? I’ve not dug into it, but there are definitely databases out there with phone number => provider, and plenty of databases with phone number => name and address. I assume there are multiple out there than combine them.

        Are those lists complete? Absolutely not. But complete enough to send out a bunch of fake warnings to some randos.

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