• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    1 year ago

    Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.

      • Jaloopa@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Yes and no. Google definitely uses location data to improve traffic details, but GPS has always been able to get some level of data about it, despite being mostly a one way system. I don’t really remember the details, I’ll try to dig out an article