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Your apps know where you were last night, and they're not keeping it secret

At least 75 companies receive anonymous, precise location data from apps whose users enable location services to get local news and weather

As smartphones become  ubiquitous, snooping on people’s daily habits has grown more intrusive
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As smartphones become ubiquitous, snooping on people’s daily habits has grown more intrusive

Natasha Singer | NYT
The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user. One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour. Another represents a person who travels with the mayor of New York during the day and returns to Long Island at night. Yet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7 am and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day. 

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