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[Lifehacker] - Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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It is worse. You’re willingly feeding them the data that’s needed for ads.
Additionally, you may unknowingly be at the wrong place and at the wrong time or in close proximity to the location of a crime. This could falsely implicate you if authorities wanted blanket cell phone data for a given area.