Your Location Data Is Being Sold-Often Without Your Knowledge - WSJ - 0 views
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like that Jack in the Box ad that appears whenever you get near one, in whichever app you have open at the time—and as popular apps harvest your lucrative location data, the potential for leaking or exploiting this data has never been higher.
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Every time you say “yes” to an app that asks to know your location, you are also potentially authorizing that app to sell your data.
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They aim to compile a complete record of where everyone in America spends their time, in order to chop those histories into market segments to sell to corporate advertisers.
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