<story><title>Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/346149979/smartphones-are-used-to-stalk-control-domestic-abuse-victims</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t AT&amp;amp;T have any privacy safeguards?&lt;p&gt;(I just started working at Google, and getting at any user data, eg for debugging of a complicated problem, is the single biggest pile of paperwork they make you do.  Even anonymized logs.)</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>I was sitting in a cafe in Ogilive Station in Chicago a few months ago, and one of the guys at an adjacent table was telling a story. His girlfriend left, took the kids, and didn&amp;#x27;t tell him where they had gone.&lt;p&gt;But, he says triumphantly, &amp;quot;the bitch forgot I work for AT&amp;amp;T.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;He the describes, with pride, the look on her face as he showed up at her new house.&lt;p&gt;Disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paganel</author><text>Not the OP, and it&amp;#x27;s not about AT&amp;amp;T, but I once knew a HR person who worked for a big and world-renowned telecom company in my (East-European) country. At some point she started to suspect her then-boyfriend of cheating on her, and to convince herself she &amp;quot;nicely asked&amp;quot; one of her IT colleagues at her job to look through the SMS messages of her boyfriend stored in the company&amp;#x27;s systems (because, presumably, she couldn&amp;#x27;t lay her hands on her boyfriend&amp;#x27;s phone directly). Said IT guy did just that, i.e. informed my former acquaintance of the SMS messages on her boyfriend&amp;#x27;s phone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Smartphones Are Used To Stalk, Control Domestic Abuse Victims</title><url>http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/346149979/smartphones-are-used-to-stalk-control-domestic-abuse-victims</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eru</author><text>Doesn&amp;#x27;t AT&amp;amp;T have any privacy safeguards?&lt;p&gt;(I just started working at Google, and getting at any user data, eg for debugging of a complicated problem, is the single biggest pile of paperwork they make you do.  Even anonymized logs.)</text></item><item><author>superuser2</author><text>I was sitting in a cafe in Ogilive Station in Chicago a few months ago, and one of the guys at an adjacent table was telling a story. His girlfriend left, took the kids, and didn&amp;#x27;t tell him where they had gone.&lt;p&gt;But, he says triumphantly, &amp;quot;the bitch forgot I work for AT&amp;amp;T.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;He the describes, with pride, the look on her face as he showed up at her new house.&lt;p&gt;Disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>confluence</author><text>Most companies are poorly run. Security and privacy safeguards are either non-existent or easily overridden.</text></comment>