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Another slimeball location-data company sells your doctor visits to the police. Grotesque and dangerous contempt for privacy -- and women in red states will surely become prime targets.

Burn this industry to the ground, I'd say, but Congress would have to act, and Congress is hostile to your privacy.

Fine reporting, as usual, from @404mediaco

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Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits

Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will use doctors visits to unmask a target if needed.
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Still don‘t understand: where do they get the location data from? Malicious apps the user has installed?
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it seems though this is how the US government ends up accessing private citizen data. It circumvents all the legal restrictions that were put in place to protect privacy. Any company providing private user data to a 3rd party should be prosecuted - in my country we have a Protection of Private Information Act, and those companies would have been prosecuted already.
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Avoid toll roads. In fact, just don't use your car because GM and others sell the location data, and license plate readers are everywhere. Don't even take the bus unless you can pay with cash. Of course, don't take a ride share.
And bring a change of clothes and wear a mask, because Ring cameras are ubiquitous.
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