Super creepy Thanksgiving study comes with extra helping of smartphone surveillance
 

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 around them. Or, alternatively, to argue about the different politicians responsible for the crumbling state of our society and planet.*

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.*

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