Telecom vendors have been found to abuse access to telcos to track people's phone locations, posing a risk to individual privacy.

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom #surveillance campaigns https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814

#Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say source: techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surv… #Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms #infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what they believe to be widespread exploitation of surveillance vendors seeking access to global #phone networks.#news #privacy #smartphone #mobile #network #location #tracking #spy #ethics #economy #bifdata #bigtech #abuse #software #capitalism #society #research #CitizenLab #digital #digitalRights #humanrights #freedom

Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/ Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814