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Re:How does Brown University know where you are? by arkadiyt on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:28PM (#25319784)
Yes, in fact government agencies like the Secret Service [1], CBP [2], IRS [3], and others frequently purchase it to circumvent warrant requirements.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/secret-service-o...

[2]: https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-warre...

[3]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7agpa/irs-location-data-ven...

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Re:How does Brown University know where you are? by gruez on Sunday December 06, 2020 @10:58AM (#25324298)
The information being sold there wasn't from mobile providers, they were collected by apps. See the first paragraph of the third article: "location data quietly harvested from ordinary smartphone apps over 10,000 times". The same applies to the other two articles.
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