Saturday, June 30, 2012

Who's data is that... really?

Propublica has a fascinating article up on the location data your cell phone provider tracks and what they do with it.

The thing I found most interesting was they'll give it to lots of people, with one major exception:  You.

It's worth taking a few minutes to read if you have a cell phone with GPS capabilities (which is, very likely, most of you).

http://www.propublica.org/article/cellphone-companies-will-share-your-location-data-just-not-with-you


I'm moving from Blogger to Substack: https://scottconverse.substack.com/

It's been a good run here on Blogger, but I'm not really spending any time here anymore and doing most of my writing over on Substac...