T-Mobile’s new app requested data from a customer’s phone every five seconds | Laptop News

Earlier today, we told you that for now, T-Mobile is keeping the new T-Life app and the old T-Mobile app as the latter remains available to help with the transition to the former app. And while both apps basically do the same things, a T-Mobile customer has made quite a shocking discovery. First, we need to point out that when this subscriber opened the T-Life app for the first time, he opted out of a request to share his data. But thanks to the Pi-hole ad blocker, he saw something unsettling.

The Pi-hole app discovered that the T-Life app was trying to send information from the subscriber’s phone every five seconds to a website with the address “smetrics.t-mobile.com.” While the T-Mobile customer said “It could be nothing, or it could be something,” he decided to uninstall the T-Life app since he was using it only to pay his account each month. After discovering what could be a major privacy issue, the customer said that he would no longer pay via the app and plans on using the T-Mobile website to remit his monthly balance.