{"id":35720,"date":"2018-12-10T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35720"},"modified":"2018-12-10T06:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T11:40:53","slug":"nytimes-your-apps-know-where-you-were-last-night-and-theyre-not-keeping-it-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35720","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They\u2019re Not Keeping It Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/12\/10\/business\/location-data-privacy-apps.html?action=click&#038;module=Top%20Stories&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They\u2019re Not Keeping It Secret<\/a> by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller and Aaron Krolik:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it\u2019s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails \u2014 each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user.<\/p>\n<p>One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour. Another represents a person who travels with the mayor of New York during the day and returns to Long Island at night.<br \/>\nYet another leaves a house in upstate New York at 7 a.m. and travels to a middle school 14 miles away, staying until late afternoon each school day. Only one person makes that trip: Lisa Magrin, a 46-year-old math teacher. Her smartphone goes with her.<\/p>\n<p>An app on the device gathered her location information, which was then sold without her knowledge. It recorded her whereabouts as often as every two seconds, according to a database of more than a million phones in the New York area that was reviewed by The New York Times. While Ms. Magrin\u2019s identity was not disclosed in those records, The Times was able to easily connect her to that dot.<\/p>\n<p>The app tracked her as she went to a Weight Watchers meeting and to her dermatologist\u2019s office for a minor procedure. It followed her hiking with her dog and staying at her ex-boyfriend\u2019s home, information she found disturbing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They\u2019re Not Keeping It Secret by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller and Aaron Krolik: Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35723,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions\/35723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}