[seieste]

One of the things that bothers me about this study is the use of SafeGraph, which provided "anonymized" data that included GPS location, race, and income.

[NikolaeVarius]

The article specifically claims that Safegraph only provided location pings.

All other data came from correlating that data with census data.

The actual BS that is going on is that this data is being collected by "numerous smartphone apps (e.g. local news, weather etc.)"

More reasons to not install apps unless necessary.

[bobbyi_settv]

> More reasons to not install apps unless necessary.

The reason is that my data might be anonymized and used to help make academic studies more accurate? I'm not losing sleep over that

[nitrogen]

The reason is that academic studies are the smallest fraction of who might want to buy and correlate these datasets.

[wideasleep1]

"Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. Where have you been? It's alright, we know where you've been." Pink Floyd

[im3w1l]

We were told we were safe in the walled garden. We were lied to.

[ekianjo]

Especially since the data collection is pretty opaque to begin with:

> According to SafeGraph’s privacy policy: “We obtain information from trusted third-party data partners such as mobile application developers, through APIs and other delivery methods. The data collection and use is governed by the privacy policy and legal terms of the data collector and the website using the data; it is not governed by SafeGraph.”