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by netgusto 2141 days ago
See no evil :) There could be non-shady reasons to do this.

Besides, I think this statement is just meant to give a sense of the kind of processing that can be done, and the scale it can reach.

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There could be non-shady reasons to do this.

I can't think of one.

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the multitude of excercise tracking apps? Tracking is entirely the point of those.

https://www.strava.com/ for example.

Using FindMyiPhone/Android to have more data on what direction a missing person was heading instead of just location pings?
Car insurance Air traffic control Simulations
maybe Pokemon Go?
worldwide parcel shipping?
Uber?