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As well as multiple financial crimes as well as campaign-finance violations after two women were paid to remain silent but alleged affairs prior to the presidential election, donald trump denies the allegations. the records show federal investigators also wanted historical and future location data for his iphone. to confirm from where he sent and received emails. in april 2018 the fbi side and obtained authority to use electronic technique. the justice department official said the investigators ...

District of new york and totally unrelated to russian collusion. multiple financial crimes including campaign finance violations after two women were paid to remain silent. president trump denies the allegations. the unsealed records show federal investigators also wanted historical and future location data for his iphones, the fbi sought and obtained authority to use whats called an electronic technique known as triggerfish, the timeline may be significant because cohen testified he was instruc...

Well. >> dana: they are always in the news. >> stock is down, too. >> dana: im not surprised. i also wanted to ask you about this story i read about yesterday. at&t, team mobile and sprint were selling location data to bounty hunters. >> sell it to second-party groups. say you are using your credit card somewhere and get credit card fraud. they are able to dough text where that fraud comes from. >> dana: that makes sense. >> or if you need roadside assistance thats the reason they have given dat...

Would reach out to a bounty hunter online on the black like dark web and then he would be able to tell me or she exactly where you were at that moment. >> dana: at that moment? >> exact moment. >> dana: this is dangerous. >> it is so dangerous. the company though and i have reached out to sprint as well as t mobile and they have not responded back before going live here. this happened in the past. all three wireless companies that you mentioned have committed to ending the sale of location data....

The data is accurate within 1,500 feet and can be live in a city like new york or like this. >> joining us now, the fcc commissioner. lets start with you. what is this? >> what this reporter was able to do was pay a bounty hunter and he is able to get a picture of where his phone was in real-time. he uncovered this whole world where your own cell phone company that youre paying a monthly fee for is selling your real-time location data to dozen of companies which then may be selling it to hundred...

When he takes responsibility for that -- its on his watch. >> executive producer of n.p.r. latino usa. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> coming up -- a sorry. >> this guy today. you know what, you got it. you got it. change his name to stephanie. you got it, biggie. its yours. >> coming up next we have a shocking report that cuts to the core of your privacy and safety. a new report shows that major cell phone companies, the ones you pay for monthly service, are selling customers location d...

And then sometimes apps dont really tell you what theyre using that information for. they are promising you the world but they dont tell you in that little icon that you get when they ask if you want to turn on your location data theyre selling your information to other companies. and the way "the new york times" found out who people were was that they just looked at that data and said all right, this cell phone is in this particular location. every single night it must be that persons home and ...

Shift the references of undecided voters by 20% or more. search ranking bias can be masked so people show no awareness of the manipulation. this is clearly problematic and compounded by the fact that google every day collects mountains of information about its users while they are actively engaged with a google product or even when they are not. according to a study conducted by vanderbilt university, adore manhattan, stationary android phone with chrome active in the background communicated loc...

Travels to a middle school 14 miles away. she went to a weight watchers meeting, hiking with her dog, the dermatologists office. to her ex-boyfriends house where she stayed. this is a detailed look at who a person is. lisas location was recorded 8 6 00 times. >> right. i think this is something that consumers are not necessarily aware of, and a lot of the companies say that this is anonymous data, but what we were able to show is you could identify people in it. and i think as were all carrying ...

That you can make money with data that would feel like not banish else my last minute and this and. how is a u.s. company with headquarters in san jose it has around two hundred thirty million customers worldwide. so it presides over huge amounts of data. i mean these companies dont tell people how theyre user to this is an open question i mean i guess we dont know how facebook users dado our google users data theres always internal and also different laws in different countries about how financ...