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Comment by JohnFen

3 years ago

> or disclose identifiable Geolocation Information with third parties (except our service providers) without your consent.

There's also that little qualifier "identifiable" in there. Companies usually take a very different stance on what constitutes "identifiable" than people think.

What that's really saying is that they will share the geolocation information with third parties without your consent, but they'll probably do a little handwavy "anonymization" thing on it first.

> they'll probably do a little handwavy "anonymization" thing on it first

But… it’s just metadata. It can’t possibly be cross referenced, in bulk, with high accuracy, in 5 minutes, right? And even if it could, I bet there’s no money to be made selling people’s data, so there will never be any shadow industry that “brokers data” of regular uninteresting people, that’d be ridiculous!