Welcome, welcome, welcome.

This is a new episode of the Tech Policy Podcast, and I'm Ashken Kassarian.

On today's show, we have Tom Lee, policy lead at Mapbox, a location data platform for mobile and web applications joining us to talk about privacy, how do they map the box,

and a lot of other exciting things. Tom, thank you for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Tom, for our listeners who maybe don't know what your company does, can you give us a quick

overview?

Sure.

So we are a map and location services company.

The map part is maybe kind of self-explanatory.

We provide these beautiful, customizable maps to developers who then provide them to end users

through websites and apps and in-vehicle experiences, things like that.

The location services are what tend to be more confusing.

But it turns out there's a bunch of things you need to make a complete map experience.

So things like being able to look up where an address is on a map or to get directions to

it, those are the kinds of services we offer.

Increasingly, some more kind of sci-fi cool stuff like augmented reality experiences,

getting realistic, real-world map features into video games.

If it has to do with location, we've

probably written software about it. In the previous conversations that you and I had,

you mentioned that you guys are the ones who provide the map services for Snapchat.

Yeah, that's right. So the Snap Maps, that's you. The Snap Maps. Yeah, we're in all kinds

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