The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location

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They rely on the multi-billion-dollar data broker industry to buy location data harvested from people’s smartphones. Data brokers can collect location data from SDKs that they pay developers to put in their apps. Ad tech companies facilitating ad auctions can and should remove precise location data from bid requests.

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