{"id":6597,"date":"2017-10-18T06:32:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:55:42","slug":"stop-mobile-phone-number-location-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/stop-mobile-phone-number-location-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop your mobile phone number and location from being sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone users are becoming aware that their phone number and location isn\u2019t private when they use the internet on their data plans thanks to the selling of your mobile advertising id (MAID). According to Wired\u2019s Andy Greenberg, it only costs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/track-location-with-mobile-ads-1000-dollars-study\/\">$1,000<\/a> to track someone online. When you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/can-websites-track-your-phone\/\">visit a website on your smartphone<\/a>, both the site itself and advertisers on the site can view your mobile IP address which they can then tie to your mobike advertising id. Since the IP address is given by your telecom from the cell tower, your IP address when you\u2019re using 4G or 3G will always be tied back to your billing information. While this makes sense from a security perspective, what doesn\u2019t make sense is that companies around the world are able to take your mobile IP address, which is given away every single time you visit a website or use an app, and find out your full phone number, home address, email address, and even location (as given by the cell tower) because this information is readily sold by telecoms to third parties. This isn\u2019t a supercookie, it simply works with your telecom provided mobile IP address \u2013 and changing it with a VPN like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/\">Private Internet Access<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How to keep your private information from being sold when using your smartphone: Change your smartphone\u2019s IP address<\/h2>\n<p>Back in 2015, Verizon was stopped by the Federal Communications Commission from serving a super cookie that allowed similar always-on tracking to be deployed and used by advertisers. The past decision does seem to be keeping Verizon from doing the exact same thing; however, it seems that telecoms have realized that they already have a persistent method of tracking their users (the IP addresses they give our smartphones) \u2013 and an ability to sell corresponding billing information to eager advertisers. All they need to do is run a query. Up until last week, it was possible to see this for yourself by using one of two public facing demos of being able to find your information with just a mobile IP address \u2013 but they have since been taken down. It\u2019s worth remembering that every telecom and internet service provider (ISP) in the world has this technical ability at the tips of their fingertips \u2013 this is not just an American problem.<\/p>\n<h2>How did they get my number?<\/h2>\n<p>The world is finally starting to understand the privacy sacrifices we make when using smartphones. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/internet-service-provider-isp-lobbied-fcc-permission-spy\/\"> FCC<\/a> is supposed to protect our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/president-trump-makes-big-splash-swamp-signs-away-americans-internet-privacy\/\">internet privacy<\/a>, but we know that is no longer the case. As the news has disseminated around the smartphone using population, many have connected the dots about why they\u2019ve been receiving more and more spam calls on their phone numbers that they\u2019ve never given out. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/76udjj\/verizon_and_att_accused_of_selling_your_phone\/doh86a0\/?utm_content=permalink&amp;utm_medium=front&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redditor<\/a> commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSprint does it too. Source: I started getting random phone calls from random ass places once I got with sprint.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/76udjj\/verizon_and_att_accused_of_selling_your_phone\/?utm_content=comments&amp;utm_medium=hot&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Redditor<\/a> described the same issue on another American telecom\u2019s service:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was with T-Mobile for years and would get 1-2 calls a month from scammers. I switched to Verizon and got them daily. Sometimes multiple times a day. I called Verizon only to have them try and sell me a call blocker service for $4.99\/Mo. I downloaded a free can blocker app and have blocked 100+ numbers in 8 months\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The solution is simple: Change your IP address to protect your privacy. Until legislation is passed that fixes this, makes it actually opt-in, or punishes the perpetrators, your privacy is at risk \u2013 especially since using WiFi isn\u2019t necessarily a tenable alternative given the recent revelations of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wpa2-krack-leaves-device-vulnerable-every-wifi-network\/\">WPA2 KRACK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone users are becoming aware that their phone number and location isn\u2019t private when they use the internet on their data plans thanks to the selling of your mobile advertising id (MAID). According to Wired\u2019s Andy Greenberg, it only costs $1,000 to track someone online. When you visit a website on your smartphone, both the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/stop-mobile-phone-number-location-sold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to stop your mobile phone number and location from being sold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,1941],"tags":[37,685,294,443],"class_list":["post-6597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","category-news","category-surveillance","tag-isp","tag-mobile-ip-address","tag-smartphones","tag-telecom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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