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Re:The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About by hackuser on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @05:37PM (#10461346)
Thanks; that is valuable information. So my whole plan (in the top-level post at the root of this discussion) is hopeless, at least in terms of having anonymous, untracked phone usage?

> your telco can know your home address based on a week's worth of location data

How accurate is that location data, do you know? Within 10 yards? 100 yards?

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Re:The $24B Data Business That Telcos Don't Want to Talk About by msellout on Friday October 30, 2015 @02:43PM (#10479700)
I can't remember the limit, but it's a legal one not technological. The military has a legal monopoly on precise GPS.
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