AT&T says it will end its practice of selling real-time user location data to third-party brokers after its primary competitor Verizon agreed to do the same earlier today. “Our top priority is to protect our customers’ information, and, to that end, we will be ending our work with aggregators for these services as soon as practical in a way that preserves important, potential lifesaving services like emergency roadside assistance,” reads a statement from an AT&T spokesperson given to The Verge. Typically, geolocation data collected by telecoms is shared with third parties for services like fraud prevention and, as Verizon points out, emergency roadside assistance.

Yet following pressure from lawmakers, specifically Sen. Ron Wyden…

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