But Facebook, Google, Microsoft, et al are still free to sell phone location data acquired through apps (or Android itself in the case of Google), right? I wonder if there is any hope of laws to limit the ability of companies to sell this data...
The first case is a far far bigger privacy concern to me, and seems to be what mobile networks were doing. Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are doing the latter.
Geolocation information shouldn't be considered a desirable dataasset to hold onto as a monetizable asset at all at the level of granularity that enables individual resolution.
Disclaimer: I work at Google.
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The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
That's why I consider it splitting hairs.
> if you are unable to make that distinction then you aren't aware of the terrifying scale and specificity of the data provided by other industries.
I am aware of the difference, and you're right, it's terrifying. But it's no less terrifying that Google can still do this.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
But Google created the entire damned infrastructure and environment which makes precisely that effect possible, no matter how thinly you slice the hairs on what it is you call the practice.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
They don't exist in international waters.
Data is the cash cow that lets them sell ads. Why would they give away the cash cow and cut themselves, the middlemen, out of the picture?