[aritmo]

Most likely the users installed one of those free apps that ask for location access. Those apps collected the location, even when not ruining and uploaded for sale.

It is a pity they did not do better forensics on the installed apps. One or more were revealing the location.

[mortenjorck]

I don’t know if AccuWeather is available in Norway, but in the US at least, it (in conjunction with location data company Reveal Mobile) has been one of the leading location-data trojan horses: https://www.zdnet.com/article/accuweather-caught-sending-geo...

[KMnO4]

It would be really interesting if each app was fed a slightly modified location as steganography. Then the sold data could be cross-referenced to determine which companies are selling the data.

[VRay]

Sounds like a waste of time to me. If you feed 5 different location streams, you'll just find those same 5 streams for sale.. What a f---ing nightmare we're living in

[indymike]

More than likely, we'd have five companies selling the same original data.