Here’s What Those Phone Charging Lockers Are Doing With Your Personal Information

Mall kiosks gather email addresses and phone numbers, and it’s not all about your security

Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero
Published in
5 min readAug 7, 2019

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Illustration: Lily Padula

PPhone charging lockers — the kind you’ll find in malls, airports, and stores like Banana Republic — solve a simple problem. They let you charge your phone without tying you to a…

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Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.