Wireless carriers routinely sell detailed customer location data to commercial buyers.

Evidence

All wireless phones broadcast their location … in radio signals, and all carriers capture the information. Now … Verizon is selling information about how often mobile phone users are in certain locations and their activities and backgrounds. Customers thus far have included malls, stadium owners, and billboard forms. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 78

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instantiation of the location-data economy connecting to surveillance-capitalism literature (Zuboff) and the attention/surveillance school the reader maps against data colonialism.
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone tracking the commercial location-data market for a concrete Verizon example.