Thanks for writing. My immediate reaction on reading the story was “isn’t this just E911?”.
It’s a tangent, but I’ve been trying to find the answer to this question for a while, and it seems that you are one of the few people with the expertise to answer it:
Would an MNVO be able to offer a meaningfully different privacy policy to the carrier it is buying wholesale from?
The context is the recent stories of telcos being caught selling location data to cops via AGPS requests for-sale, outside of the E911 system. If, say T-Mobile sold AGPS requests on telephone numbers via an API, could an MNVO on the T-Mobile network protect its customers? Is there a particular part of infrastructure which an MNVO would need to control to ensure this?
It’s a tangent, but I’ve been trying to find the answer to this question for a while, and it seems that you are one of the few people with the expertise to answer it:
Would an MNVO be able to offer a meaningfully different privacy policy to the carrier it is buying wholesale from?
The context is the recent stories of telcos being caught selling location data to cops via AGPS requests for-sale, outside of the E911 system. If, say T-Mobile sold AGPS requests on telephone numbers via an API, could an MNVO on the T-Mobile network protect its customers? Is there a particular part of infrastructure which an MNVO would need to control to ensure this?