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Re:Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE by madeofpalk on Thursday June 30, 2022 @12:03PM (#31934485)
The headline is "Coinbase Is Reportedly Selling Geolocation Data to ICE". What you say doesn't dispute this. How is it misleading?

You say that Coinbase is selling geolocation data to ICE, which is exactly what the headline says.

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Re:Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE by bertil on Thursday June 30, 2022 @12:31PM (#31934954)
I’m assuming that the implication of the title is that Coinbase is using the location data of its active users; data that it obtained through geo-locating user IPs; IPs collected from the necessary exchange of information over TCP/IP. That’s how I read it first. The story is a little different. You could imagine a title saying that “Coinbase is collecting third-party location data and selling it to ICE” closer to the report.
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