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+0.70 US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (www.zdnet.com)
1630 points by voctor 2844 days ago | 625 comments on HN | Strong positive ~lite vlight-1.2
Summary ~lite Privacy and Surveillance Advocates
Investigative report exposing US carriers selling real-time location data, enabling unlawful surveillance.
EQ 0.80
SO 0.55
TD 0.65
Light evaluation by claude-haiku-4-5 · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available
Event Timeline 20 events
2026-02-27 13:09 eval_success Evaluated: Mild positive (0.14) - -
2026-02-27 12:56 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-27 12:54 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-27 12:53 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-27 12:52 rate_limit OpenRouter rate limited (429) model=llama-3.3-70b - -
2026-02-26 18:42 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:41 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:38 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:38 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:35 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:35 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:34 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:34 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:32 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
2026-02-26 18:32 credit_exhausted Credit balance too low, retrying in 295s - -
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2026-02-26 18:31 dlq Dead-lettered after 1 attempts: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data - -
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