New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Location Data

Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by AznHisoka on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:50AM (#20507699)

The economics of location data is such that if providers had to pay them much per person, they'd no longer buy the data. If they paid the real worth per person, it'd probably come down to 1/2 cent a month.

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Re:New York City to Consider Banning Sale of Cellphone Locat... by DevKoala on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @12:01PM (#20507777)

Not true. I work on a targeting product, and if we could have accurate targeting data for a business decision maker, we’d pay significantly more per individual. The problem is that most people’s targeting data is not worth that much. Particularly the data of those who’d want to make a buck off it.

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