T-Mobile’s Privacy Center has quietly added two new toggles, and both enabled by default. The first, labeled «Fraud and identity theft protection,» allows the carrier to share.
What just happened? T-Mobile drew customer ire earlier this year after quietly updating its privacy settings to include a new section that automatically opted users into «Profiling and automated decisions.» Now, the carrier is facing renewed backlash for adding two additional privacy settings that permit the sharing of user data with third parties.
T-Mobile’s Privacy Center has quietly added two new toggles, and both enabled by default. The first, labeled «Fraud and identity theft protection», allows the carrier to share users’ personal data with third parties, ostensibly to help prevent fraud. The shared information includes account details, usage activity, communication patterns, and interactions with potentially malicious URLs.
