> “Tech companies are profiting by spying on Americans — trampling on the right to privacy and risking our national security,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democ

> “Tech companies are profiting by spying on Americans — trampling on the right to privacy and risking our national security,” Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat running for president, told us. “They are throwing around their power to undermine our democracy with zero consequences. This report is another alarming case for why we need to break up big tech, adopt serious privacy regulations and hold top executives of these companies personally responsible.” This reporting doesn't support Warren's case. If anything, the big tech companies are relatively responsible collectors and users of location data compared to the smaller location data companies described in [1]. Indeed, whoever leaked this dataset (showing the company's poor data controls and poor culture of respect for users' privacy) got it from a location data company, which "you've probably never heard of".[2] [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/location-tracking-smartphone-marketing.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/20/opinion/locat... [2]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...