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A long exposé from the New York Times<\/em><\/a> explores just how much location data is collected from mobile apps, to the point where the identity of an anonymous user can be reconstructed from where they’ve been. The key point: whatever purpose the app is collecting your location for (for example, to give you your local weather), that location data may be shared with and sold to other parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long exposé from the New York Times explores just how much location data is collected from mobile apps, to the point where the identity of an anonymous user can be reconstructed from where they’ve… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[420,1316,646],"class_list":["post-1786825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-geolocation","tag-location-services","tag-privacy","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789702,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/11\/how-the-u-s-military-buys-location-data-from-mobile-apps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786825,"position":0},"title":"How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Mobile Apps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 November 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Motherboard reported last week that the U.S. military was buying location data that originated, among other places, from Muslim prayer and dating apps. 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