Location data sales are out of control, and should be made illegal [Opinion]<div class="feat-image">
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<p>The sale of location data sales has become both big business, and one of the biggest <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url] threats in recent years. While the companies involved in <a href="
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/location-intelligence-market" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">this $14B industry[/url] claim that only aggregated and anonymized data is sold, <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2018/12/10/location-data/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">numerous investigations[/url] have <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2022/07/22/carrier-location-data/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">shown that this[/url] simply <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2019/08/13/location-based-dating-apps/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">isn’t true[/url].</p>
<p>Just yesterday, we learned that the Federal Trade Commission is suing a data broker that can <a href="
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/29/tech/ftc-kochava-abortion-suit/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">identify people seeking abortions[/url], and that it made samples of that data publicly available. In the past, we’ve seen how location data can reveal everything from <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/19/location-tracking-database/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">where cops’ kids go to school[/url] to <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/27/us-military-movements-smartphone-data/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">US troop movements in war zones[/url] …</p>
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