This is a paid advertisement from BetterHelp Therapy Online.

When you're at your best, you can do great things, but you can't be at the top of your

game all the time.

Working with a therapist can get you closer to the best version of you.

BetterHelp can provide access to over a thousand mental health professionals with a wide

variety of expertise.

Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com slash daily pod.

So I think people are used to the idea that they're being tracked in a sense.

You know, they're aware that they're providing their location to apps for mapping or finding

parking places, getting weather alerts, things like that.

And they generally have a sense that in order for that to happen a company somewhere,

as to know where they are, but I don't think people understand the magnitude of the data

collection or the fact that it's spreading to dozens of companies who know where they

are pretty much all the time.

We really are being followed.

Today, an investigation by my colleague, Jennifer Valentino Diffries, finds that the information

being collected about us through apps on our smartphones is far more extensive than most

of us imagine or are aware we have consented to.

It's Monday, December 10.

In the spring, I wrote a story about a location company that was collecting location data

and allowing it to be accessed by law enforcement.

And after I wrote that story, I got some tips that this space had really blown up in the

...