[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.