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I'm surprised people think they have any kind of privacy - especially when using free services. They are not free. You pay with whatever data can be extracted from your devices and behavior.

Also, there's a looong list of companies who know the location of your mobile device, starting from the cell phone tower operator to Apple/Google and many in between.






True. But even paid apps have access to these data and can collect it without our knowledge. A genius called Stallman proposed solution decades ago. Free software aka. open source software. But outside of tech community, open source is not a known term. Maybe we should market it wherever possible, if we want true privacy and freedom.

The article does not explain how PII gets into the databases, and the critical link the IDfV... how do databases connect it to people's name/address?

It gets leaked if the app I use gets my name/address, like Uber, right?




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