How Smartphone Location Tracking Works, and What You Can Do About It
Smartphone location data, often used by marketers, has been useful for studying the spread of the coronavirus. But the information raises troubling privacy questions.
The fact that companies are collecting, storing and selling location information about individuals at all presents risks. Hackers or people with access to raw location data could identify or follow a person without consent, by pinpointing, for example, which phone regularly spent time at that person’s home address.
Full article: How Smartphone Location Tracking Works, and What You Can Do About It – The New York Times
