It would be a super invasive violation of people's privacy. The whole data brokering business is sketchy. Supposedly it's not hard to go from this sort of data to IDing people though.
Not hard to do. There are reverse lookup services. Take the location of the phone in the evening (where people live/sleep) and reverse lookup who owns or rents the house. Easy to do.
Have the 2000 mules producers said this?
I don't think they are even claiming this.
They bought cell phone location data from a data broker. Anonymized cell phone data.
So they would have to deanonymize it somehow.
I may have misunderstood but I thought they said they actually had the numbers during the show. Not just the anonymizes cell phone data.
It would be a super invasive violation of people's privacy. The whole data brokering business is sketchy. Supposedly it's not hard to go from this sort of data to IDing people though.
Not hard to do. There are reverse lookup services. Take the location of the phone in the evening (where people live/sleep) and reverse lookup who owns or rents the house. Easy to do.