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date: '2018-09-15'
title: 'U.S. cell carriers want to help manager your identity online'
description: 'But do you want your carrier managing your logins across the websites and apps you use on your phone?'
tags: ['privacy']
---

**[Jon Brodkin:](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/att-and-verizon-want-to-manage-your-identity-across-websites-and-apps/)**

> But do you want your carrier managing your logins across the websites and apps you use on your phone?

No — absolutely not.<!-- excerpt -->

> "The carriers have a dismal track record of authenticating the user," Weaver also said. "If the carriers were trustworthy, I think this would be unequivocally a good idea. The problem is I don't trust the carriers."
