Twelve million phones, one dataset, zero privacy

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Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones.

by Stuart A. Thompson, Charlie Warzel
Enlarged view: Orwell video game artwork ( CC BY-SA 3.0 / Osmotic Studios via Wikimedia Commons)
Orwell video game artwork (CC BY-SA 3.0 / Osmotic Studios via Wikimedia Commons)

Now, as the decade ends, tens of millions of Americans, including many children, find themselves carrying spies in their pockets during the day and leaving them beside their beds at night. external pageRead on

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