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Data brokers are selling your precise location history for less than the price of a sandwich

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Data brokers sell your location history for twelve cents—meaning a stale gumball costs more than your constitutional privacy.

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Worse, police bypass search warrants by buying dossiers directly from apps—surveillance superstates, officially sponsored by that stale gumball.

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LanguageEN
HostsJohn Olive