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My questions for any company that collects location data or receives it from a third party would include: Do you associate the geo data with individualized ide
by ENOTTY 7y ago
My questions for any company that collects location data or receives it from a third party would include:
Do you associate the geo data with individualized identifiers? In other words, can individual data points be linked to one another (linkability)? (Obviously the answer is yes for whichever company this dataset came from)
Do you resell the raw data to other third parties, and if so, what kind of vetting and data controls are levied upon them? Where are these customers located? Let us see one of your contracts.
I generally think this story would have be more impactful if the Times tried to pose as a customer and bought the data from a company to expose flaws in that system. As it stands, the location companies are very willing to admit they sell this data, but they would claim that nothing bad will happen to you. Disprove that and now there’s a cause for action.