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How does Apple’s removal of IDFA affect this? The ad companies no longer have a cross-app identifier that would be of any use in correlating data from a specifi
by pnw 4y ago
How does Apple’s removal of IDFA affect this? The ad companies no longer have a cross-app identifier that would be of any use in correlating data from a specific phone/person?
- juunpp 4y agoThe phone company is still tracking your IMSI/IMEI, and they sell data too. The former is directly linked to your identity; the latter also trivially so for most people.
- pnw 4y agoI understand there is a separate level of privacy issues caused by phone companies selling data, but all of the reports refer to data collected from apps which can't be IMSI/IMEI since that's not available from apps?
- juunpp 4y agoPhone companies track you by virtue of your phone talking to cell towers, and they do sell your data. What OS or software you run on the phone is irrelevant. Recent versions of Android do not allow user-level applications to read the IMEI/IMSI as far as I know, but that was not always the case. And in any case, it doesn't prevent the carrier from tracking you. https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-access-to-real-time-location-data/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces... https://www.wired.com/story/carriers-sell-location-data-third-parties-privacy/ https://www.wired.com/story/carriers-sell-location-data-thir... https://www.ccmihub.com/blog/fcc-fines-mobile-providers-selling-real-time-customer-location-data https://www.ccmihub.com/blog/fcc-fines-mobile-providers-sell... https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/06/at-t-verizon-sprint-and-t-mobile-reportedly-sell-your-location-data/1118511001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/06/at-t-verizon-... https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-selling-your-location-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...