Tann, it's got the code. It's going to launch.

It's a unit system. I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park. It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle one.

The package is being delivered.

Earlier this month, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox transferred $300 to a bounty hunter.

Moments later, he got sent a Google Maps screenshot.

The bounty hunter had found the current location of the phone that Joseph asked him

to track. No hacking required. A report from website motherboard revealed T-Mobile and other cell

providers sold data to third parties, resulting in unauthorized information sharing, ultimately

allowing a bounty hunter to track a reporter's phone location. Motherboardboards investigation into the shady, unauthorized sale of cell phone location tracking data

shows the terrifying ways in which our personal data is sold and mishandled.

First, by telecom companies like T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T,

and then by a series of increasingly obscure middlemen and data aggregators.

These companies have names like Zemigo and MicroBilt.

You've probably never heard of them, but they know where you are.

This week, we're taking a deep dive into that world.

First, motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Kebler will talk to Joseph,

but how he did the investigation and about how bounty hunters and debt collectors skirt the law.

Then I'll talk to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden about the fallout from the story

and about his years-long quest to keep your private data private.

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