{"id":1888,"date":"2019-01-11T21:36:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T16:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2019-05-28T21:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:13:07","slug":"your-apps-know-where-you-were-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/your-apps-know-where-you-were-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Your apps know where you were last night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">If you are using apps for weather, news or local information ( finding petrol station or ATM) the data is available to anyone willing to pay a price and then analyse your daily habits, over days, accurate location recorded as frequently as every 15-20 minutes providing a detailed snapshot of everything you do.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>If you think this is fiction, read this report in The New York Times researched and written by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Natasha Singer, Michael H. Keller and Aaron Krolik . Times reviewed data from 2017 was held by one company and it ..\u201dreveals people\u2019s travels in startling detail, accurate to within a few years and in some cases updated more than 14,000 times a day.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Connecting the dots with available information, though claimed to be  anonymized , can pinpoint a person, doctors she sees and the person she spent the night with. Data examined by Times, showed phones potentially belonging to school going children and traceable to nearby homes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The app companies sell raw data or derivatives to advertisers making up the $21 Bn industry delivering location specific advertisements.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> So next time you think your location usage is private matter, think again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/12\/10\/business\/location-data-privacy-apps.html \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/12\/10\/business\/location-data-privacy-apps.html <\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using apps for weather, news or local information ( finding petrol station or ATM) the data is available to anyone willing to pay a price and then analyse your daily habits, over days, accurate location recorded as frequently as every 15-20 minutes providing a detailed snapshot of everything you do.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/your-apps-know-where-you-were-last-night\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[70,90],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","tag-alwayslearning","tag-apps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-us","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}