Many apps share your location data with aggregators, who combine it with your IP address, device ID, credit card purchase history, and literally thousands of ot

Many apps share your location data with aggregators, who combine it with your IP address, device ID, credit card purchase history, and literally thousands of other details about you. While this profile is nominally "anonymized," in that it doesn't have your name and address directly in the record, it very clearly relates to an individual person. The aggregate data is sold far and wide, and not difficult to obtain. Scammers and others buy these profiles in bulk, and then mine them for potential customers to call in the same way that "legit" advertisers use your profile to decide which ads to insert in your Hulu stream or on top of your smart TV program.