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You can help The Markup find the sleazy companies that secretly sell your location data

2021-10-07 00:00:00

The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom with a mission to understand and expose powerful entities are using technology in ways that hurt society. It recently investigated the $12 billion market for phone location data. It "identified 47 companies that play one of the many roles in the location data pipeline: providers, buyers, sellers, and aggregators."

Now The Markup is asking for your help in finding these secretive companies that get rich tracking you and selling your personal data. The next time your phone displays a pop-up asking if you want to allow an app to track you, take a screenshot and send it to The Markup.

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