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11-16-2017, 09:09 AM
Super creepy Thanksgiving study comes with extra helping of smartphone surveillance
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It's that time of the year again when Americans come together with friends and relatives to share a hearty meal and not think about the world falling apart (http://mashable.com/2017/11/13/greenhouse-gas-emissions-hit-record-high/) around them. Or, alternatively, to argue about the different politicians responsible for the crumbling state (http://mashable.com/2017/08/16/terrible-trump-executive-order-obama-flood-standards-climate/) of our society (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/trump-lies-falsehoods-washington-post-tracker/) and planet (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/trump-hartnett-white-climate-denial-statements/).*
What Thanksgiving revelers might not realize, however, is that the precise geographic details of their communal experience are being recorded, analyzed, and monetized by a combination of smartphone apps and a little known San Francisco-based company by the name of SafeGraph.
And it's super creepy.*
SEE ALSO: This Slack setting tells you if your boss is spying on your DMs (http://mashable.com/2017/10/26/slack-dms-private/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/15/thanksgiving-privacy-smartphone-apps/)
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It's that time of the year again when Americans come together with friends and relatives to share a hearty meal and not think about the world falling apart (http://mashable.com/2017/11/13/greenhouse-gas-emissions-hit-record-high/) around them. Or, alternatively, to argue about the different politicians responsible for the crumbling state (http://mashable.com/2017/08/16/terrible-trump-executive-order-obama-flood-standards-climate/) of our society (http://mashable.com/2017/11/14/trump-lies-falsehoods-washington-post-tracker/) and planet (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/trump-hartnett-white-climate-denial-statements/).*
What Thanksgiving revelers might not realize, however, is that the precise geographic details of their communal experience are being recorded, analyzed, and monetized by a combination of smartphone apps and a little known San Francisco-based company by the name of SafeGraph.
And it's super creepy.*
SEE ALSO: This Slack setting tells you if your boss is spying on your DMs (http://mashable.com/2017/10/26/slack-dms-private/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/15/thanksgiving-privacy-smartphone-apps/)
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