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Years of Incarcerated Journalist’s Reporting Deleted by Notorious Prison Telecom ‘Inadvertently’

11.01.23

By Jules Roscoe
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US Marshal Charged for Using Cop Phone Location Tool to Track People He Knew

06.14.22

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Securus Technologies Is Cashing in on Immigrant Detention

06.12.20

By Garrett Hazelwood
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FCC Commissioners Say the Agency Won’t Tell Them About Phone Location Data Investigation

05.13.19

By Joseph Cox
FCC Commissioners Say the Agency Won’t Tell Them About Phone Location Data Investigation

05.13.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Selling Customers’ Location Data

05.04.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone

01.08.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Bail Bond Company Let Bounty Hunters Track Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Phones for $7.50

06.22.18

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Verizon Says It Will Stop Selling US Phone Data That Ended Up in Hands of Cops

06.19.18

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US

05.16.18

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Cops Can Find the Location of Any Phone in the Country in Seconds, and a Senator Wants to Know Why

05.11.18

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Bernie Sanders Joins 14 Senators Calling for a Cap on Prison Phone Call Charges

10.15.15

By Sam Gustin

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