Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone

Verizon (which owns Oath, which owns TechCrunch) was punished by the FCC for injecting information into its subscribers' traffic that allowed them to be tracked without their consent. That practice appears to be alive and well despite being disallowed in a ruling last March

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/victory-verizon-will-stop-tagging-customers-tracking-without-consent

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/15/mobile-phone-companies-appear-to-be-providing-your-number-and-location-to-anyone-who-pays/

https://medium.com/@philipn/want-to-see-something-crazy-open-this-link-on-your-phone-with-wifi-turned-off-9e0adb00d024

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/17/10/17/0054233/mobile-phone-companies-appear-to-be-selling-your-location-to-almost-anyone