So today AT&T announced plans to test a service allowing payment card providers to access the location of a customer’s phone to improve the accuracy of fraud prevention systems for transactions made abroad. AT&T customers will have to opt-in to the fraud protection service, which will also be me made available to enterprise customers later this year.

Antone Gonsalves asked me for my opinions about the privacy implications, which he included some of within his article he published on CSO Online today.  However, I wanted to make several more points to follow-on to his article. (more…)