Seven years ago,  Carrier IQ had been accused of providing AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile with the means to track users’ phones and log their personal data using a secret app that users couldn’t remove. 

At the time, Carrier IQ was a scandal that appeared to be getting resolved by device makers and OS vendors, thanks to pressure from Congress. But now, it seems, we take it for granted that cell carriers know where our phones are, and we merely expect that data to be kept private.

A new report from Motherboard shows that we definitely shouldn’t make that assumption