Despite assurances to the contrary, AT&T has been selling its customers’ location data to creditors, bounty hunters, landlords, prison officials, and all sorts of third parties, according to data privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation in a federal class action filed Tuesday. The class action led by customers Katherine Scott, Carolyn Jewel and George Pontis also names aggregators LocationSmart and Zumigo, which bought location and network information from AT&T and sold it down a chain of third parties for commercial purposes. AT&T then falsely stated it had suspended Securus’ and other aggregators’ access to customer data, the plaintiffs say, but just a few days later, a Motherboard article reported the carrier was selling customers’ phone locations to car salesmen, bail bondsmen, landlords and bounty hunters for as little as $7.50. AT&T granted direct access to this data to the aggregator defendants, who in turn sold such access to hundreds of third parties – including bounty hunters, bail bondsmen, landlords, and law enforcement – with AT&T’s consent. This system allowed the precise, real-time location data of millions of Americans to be bought and sold by unknowable third parties for years without customer consent or knowledge and without valid legal authority. Despite numerous representations by AT&T that it would end the aggregator defendants’ access to this data, the practice – and the risks it created – continued without consequence.”