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Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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SafeGraph sells access to several different types of data. Those include information on where businesses or other points of interest are physically located in the world; aggregated transaction data on how much money people spend at them; and aggregated location data showing where groups of people who visited these points of interest came from on a census block level, and what other businesses they went to afterwards. That last set of data is based on location information harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ smartphones.Do you work in the location data industry or how know else the data is being used? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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