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<\/div>Constant Surveillance<\/h2>
If you own a phone, it’s almost certainly tracking your every move and sending the information to a handful of private companies that operate with virtually no regulatory oversight.<\/p>
That’s according to a massive investigation<\/a> by the opinion desk at the New York Times<\/em>, during which reporters gained access to a tiny slice of one company’s massive stores of location data<\/a>.<\/p> The investigation reveals just how much information these companies have on the average person and makes one thing very clear: any company claiming to protect or anonymize your data is either lying or being deliberately misleading.<\/p> The leaked phone tracking data the NYT<\/em> gained access to through anonymous sources contains some 50 billion data points representing the exact locations of 12 million Americans’ phones during several months in 2016 and 2017.<\/p> Using the data, the investigators were able to track and identify senior government officials, celebrities, investigative journalists, and even an engineer who took a job at a rival company — and that’s all from a tiny fragment of the data collected and analyzed or sold by just one of dozens of similar companies.<\/p> While it’s unclear why the investigation was published by the NYT<\/em>‘s opinion desk, it may have been so that the reporters could say in no uncertain terms: this is utterly terrifying.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy<\/a> [The New York Times<\/em>]<\/p> More on surveillance: <\/strong>The Pentagon Is Launching Mass Surveillance Balloons Over America<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Phone Location Tracking Is Way Worse Than We Thought<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> See the original post: Constant Surveillance If you own a phone, it\u2019s almost certainly tracking your every move and sending the information to a handful of private companies that operate with virtually no regulatory oversight. That\u2019s according to a massive investigation by the opinion desk at the New York Times , during which reporters gained access to a tiny slice of one company\u2019s massive stores of location data . Continue reading Security Breach<\/h2>
Phone Location Tracking Is Way Worse Than We Thought<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"