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Oh no, not the location data sales market.



Not sure what your point is or what your interpretation of my comment was. So just to clarify, I think the location data sales market is a bad thing and that is why I advocate a solution that would destroy that market and give us back location privacy. It has zero benefit to users and a lot of scary downside.

(For those who are unaware, a lot of free apps pay for themselves by secretly recording location history and then selling it. This is why companies and even government agencies can buy mass location data when they want and query it to find out who was where when. This has been going on for years and is well known and documented and in no way secret. Just for anyone who missed it somehow.)




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