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Originally Posted by derf
Cell companies have been collecting data on people for years, its foolish to think otherwise. How do you think they know where to increase service capacity? Where they need to put new cell phone stores? They've provably been tracking your movements as you move past cell towers, probably even your driving habits and travel habits, then sold that data to marketing companies. This is nothing new.
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Reselling data is not that bad, provided the data is aggregate, or anonymous.
Selling, or even compiling specific and sensitive location data that could compromise a person's security without the full consent of the user, and then even reselling that data without concern for how it may be used is rather clearly NOT OK.