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Author of the underlying study here. Facebook has been insisting that non-discrimination should be the responsibility of the purchasers, but we've shown over [0] and over [1] again…

the latter, see https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to...

Your feeling is correct. It's been shown by researchers (incl. me) and confirmed by Facebook that they're doing that: https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to..…

Here's a paper that describes it, confirmed with real profiles, not just speculation: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01955327/document

I use https://github.com/andrea-cuttone/geoplotlib in my work and highly recommend checking it out. The lib uses openstreetmaps as background, can display scatters, heatmaps, shape…

It's true: Skyhook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft have been doing it for a while. Even more, there are free databases that you can use to map WiFi routers to locations (for example …

Yes, but: 1) you can circumvent this problem by randomizing your mac between probes, as apple already does, and that doesn't help with the threat we present 2) ssids are not unique…

They are also willing to share their knowledge: you can do 100 requests per day for free to https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ge... , or pay up to have basi…

Good point, thanks! We didn't watch the traffic of these apps yet, we just point out that they have the ability to report it back, beyond the user's control. I did however read thr…

This is something different: they just know when you visit a location with a router that they control. We show that you don't need to control any routers to track people's location…

Also, checkout the app that shows the findings on your own data: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.dtu.compute...