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Most likely the users installed one of those free apps that ask for location access. Those apps collected the location, even when not ruining and uploaded for sale.

It is a pity they did not do better forensics on the installed apps. One or more were revealing the location.

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I don’t know if AccuWeather is available in Norway, but in the US at least, it (in conjunction with location data company Reveal Mobile) has been one of the leading location-data trojan horses: https://www.zdnet.com/article/accuweather-caught-sending-geo...

It would be really interesting if each app was fed a slightly modified location as steganography. Then the sold data could be cross-referenced to determine which companies are selling the data.

Sounds like a waste of time to me. If you feed 5 different location streams, you'll just find those same 5 streams for sale.. What a f---ing nightmare we're living in

More than likely, we'd have five companies selling the same original data.

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