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I have talked to somebody working for this exact company before that was telling me about some of their project that they were working on. In addition to video images they also track people through their phones across stores to analyze shopping behaviour and fingerprint customers.

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I never turn on wifi or bluetooth away from home, my question is, are they doing LTE data collection too?

>are they doing LTE data collection too?

Don't cell carriers already sell your "anonymized" location data to marketers?

How is that even legal?! I mean I know the gov gets their data via abuse of the third party doctrine, but just straight up selling your data? If I had to guess they slap a dubious label of"anonymized" data...

Probably because you agreed to it (buried in the ToS somewhere), and there's no government regulations forbidding it.

It's plausible. The mall could have a stingray device monitoring everyone's data.

It's been done before, there was a big outcry about it a while back. Malls were using fake cell phone basestations to locate phones within the mall.

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