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If you carry a cell phone, your location is already logged by by the wireless carriers, whom I trust much less with my data, both in terms of keeping it secure
by freyr 5y ago
If you carry a cell phone, your location is already logged by by the wireless carriers, whom I trust much less with my data, both in terms of keeping it secure and not reselling it to third parties [1].
Certainly, some people will want to minimize the number of parties that know you were in location X at time Y. But I’d guess that for many people, myself included, that data simply isn’t that sensitive or interesting.
[1] All the major U.S. carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile) have been fined for reselling users’ location data without consent: https://www.govtech.com/network/wireless-carriers-face-200m-fine-for-selling-location-data.html https://www.govtech.com/network/wireless-carriers-face-200m-...