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  "path": "/t/fbi-is-buying-data-that-can-be-used-to-track-people-patel-says/36399#post_2",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T14:55:20.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "How SDKs, hidden trackers in your phone, work | Vox",
    "Federal Regulators Limit Location Brokers from Selling Your Whereabouts: 2024 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation",
    "FTC accuses data brokers of improperly selling location info • The Register",
    "There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup"
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  "textContent": "Pinkerton law seems dead in the US. Cannot do indirectly what you can’t do indirectly used to be a pillar of the USG.\n\nPrevious incidents:\n\n  1. How SDKs, hidden trackers in your phone, work | Vox\n  2. Federal Regulators Limit Location Brokers from Selling Your Whereabouts: 2024 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation\n  3. FTC accuses data brokers of improperly selling location info • The Register\n  4. There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data – The Markup\n\n\n\nFor individuals it’s easy, you can just do things. You can wake up one day and say I will not use software that does not respect me. And problem solved for the individual.\n\nAs a society this needs honest enforcement of already existing laws.",
  "title": "FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says"
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