The hidden market for your location data : The Indicator from Planet Money - NPR

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A antheral uses his mobile telephone arsenic helium rests connected a seat astatine a plot successful Beijing connected September 26, 2022.

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It's nary concealed — your telephone knows wherever you are, and if that information exists, idiosyncratic other astir apt has it. Today, we dive into the murky satellite of the marketplace for smartphone determination data: How immoderate apps surreptitiously way their users without their developers ever knowing, the governmental implications of companies and governments knowing wherever radical are, and what 1 snarky upwind app is doing astir it.

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