Wireless carriers get consent to use location data

Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 16:30 in Mathematics & Economics

(AP) -- The nation's four largest wireless carriers say they obtain customer permission before using a subscriber's physical location to provide driving directions, family-locator applications and other location-based services, and before sharing a subscriber's location with any outside mobile apps that provide such services.

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