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by dbyrd 2078 days ago
They also sell this data to hedge funds who can use it to try to predict retail sales.
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I'm kind of skeptical of that. Do you specifically mean location metadata (I'm aware that happens), or do you actually mean AT&T sells access to datasets which map semantic content in the call to specific brands and products?

Credit card transaction data has a much higher signal for the same purpose and is just easier to work with.

Just location metadata which the hedge funds overlay with known retail locations.