Following decisions by U.S. wireless carriers to stop selling location data to “geolocation aggregators,” CBC News reports on a similar setup within telecoms in Canada. Rogers, Telus and Bell all operate a joint venture called EnStream, where the telecoms charge third-party companies a fee to look up users’ location data, but only with their consent. EnStream Chief Identity Officer Robert Blumenthal said Canadian privacy laws, plus the telecoms owning the venture, allow for more control over who gets to view the information. Despite Blumenthal’s assurances no one misuses the information, former GCHQ Telecommunications Security Analyst Sarah Jamie Lewis called the consent model used by the group “weak,” adding information always has the potential to be abused when a model is built on trust.
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