Some apps sell your location data by hiding developers' true intentions

According to today's New York Times, the apps that you have installed on your phone are passing along your location history to advertis...

According to today's New York Times, the apps that you have installed on your phone are passing along your location history to advertisers and others willing to pay up for this information. This probably doesn't come as a surprise to most of our readers, but the quantity of data that is collected and how this anonymous data can be used to possibly identify you might.

Take 46-year old math teacher Lisa Magrin. She is the only person that makes a daily 14 mile drive from upstate New York at 7am to the middle school where she works. An app on her phone collected ...

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