Sprint Responds To GPS Privacy Issue

If you’re a privacy advocate, you’ll certainly be concerned about the recent issue of Sprint sharing GPS-tracking data to authorities. If there is any positive spin to the whole issue, it is that Sprint has been fairly open and is facing the issue head on, instead of feigning innocence and ignorance. The company has refuted the “8 million” figure which has been bandied about, and says that it isn’t the number of customers whose location information as provided to law enforcement. In the end, regardless of the number, it’s still an invasion of privacy to many folks. Hopefully Sprint will be able to find an amicable way to resolve this issue for all parties.