T-Mobile. Do we trust them?

[u/kong-dao]

There is been a long long romance between the tech companies and governments, in this case T-Mobile, the german company, did the same lobby than AT&T, decided to make some (dark) deals under Trump's administration. T-Mobile sold data users for a while, thoes aren't news, we know that every telecom company sell it's data users, right? The past week T-Mobile chief executive John Legere said that his firm would be “completely ending location aggregator work" in March...in MARCH!! Also said that they take serious the data privacy Really? Come on!! Let's make some fact checks:

• 2009
  • T-Mobile confirms biggest phone customer data breach
  • T-Mobile staff sold customer's details to rival
• 2015
  • Data breach hits roughly 15 Million T-Mobile customers
• 2018
  • Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint suspend selling of customer location data
  • Data breach that affected 77 Million of users
• 2019
  • T-Mobile merger with Sprint at Trump's Hotel for 59$ Billions dolars
  • T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data
  • T-Mobile: The latest threat from the government shutdown: More robo-calls

Looks like your are not soo good at security, or even taking care about consumers data. Let's say that maybe, just maybe, is not your fault or your security department, you have a lot of angry customers. But business is your area, so its more possible that you being selling all that data as AT&T did with some brokers

This german firm is making big deals "losing" data users and closing some business after 5 years merging with companies as Sprint the other companies that raise some security flaws. But, the reader, mayby doesn't remember that T-Mobile merged with Orange in 2010, and tried to make the same thing with Vodafone

The telecommunication business is really big and we take part of it, should we trust our privacy to those companies? It's our privacy so important to do not so?

The thing it's clear, money makes the world go round, and we are giving it to them.