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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Your data is valuable. Everything you do online and everywhere you go with your phone is tracked. And there’s a robust market for that data, a market that lets governments and private individuals purchase reams of your personal data.
What if the CDC wanted to track people’s phones to see if they’re obeying Covid-19 lockdown orders? They can do that.
What about a private individual paying to track the whereabouts of groups of people who visited Planned Parenthood? Also possible.
On this episode of Cyber, Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Joseph Cox comes on to discuss SafeGraph and the data it’s selling to anyone who is willing to pay.
Stories discussed in this episode:
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Leaked Location Data Shows Another Muslim Prayer App Tracking Users
Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head
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0:00.0 | Tannan, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.0 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.0 | I know this. |
0:14.0 | It's how all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
0:18.0 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:23.2 | Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
0:26.5 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:28.8 | I'm Matthew Galt, and this is cyber. |
0:31.2 | You know, your data, it's valuable. |
0:34.2 | Everything you do online, everywhere you go with your phone, |
0:37.1 | it's all tracked and stored somewhere. There's a robust market for |
0:39.1 | that data, a market that lets governments and private individuals purchase reams of our personal |
0:43.8 | data. What if the CDC, say, wanted to track people's phones to see if they're obeying COVID-19 |
0:49.6 | lockdown orders? Well, they can do that. What about a private individual paying to track the whereabouts of groups of |
0:57.3 | people who visited Planned Parenthood? Also, frighteningly possible. With me today, to talk about all of this is |
1:04.7 | Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Joseph Cox. Cox has written a pair of excellent stories about |
1:09.4 | Data Broker SafeGraph that went live on the site today. |
1:13.5 | They are, |
1:14.4 | Data Broker is selling location data of people who visit abortion clinics, |
1:18.4 | and CDC tracked millions of phones to see if Americans followed COVID-19 lockdown orders. |
1:25.2 | J.C., thank you so much for coming on to cyber once again and walking us through |
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