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

• 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s amusing that people assume their data is private just because they don’t think it should be public.

        That isn’t to say I don’t think it should be private, but it simply isn’t.

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    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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