The Business of Selling Your Location

The Business of Selling Your Location

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A New York Times investigation has found that the information being collected about us through apps on our smartphones is far more extensive than most of us imagine — or are aware we have consented to. Guests: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer and Michael H. Keller, reporters who cover technology for The Times; and Gabriel J.X. Dance, deputy investigations editor. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

A note about this episode: The Times identified a small number of people in the location data with their permission. It did not identify anyone else in the data.