Current：Home > ScamsThe hidden market for your location data -TrueNorth Capital Hub
The hidden market for your location data
View
Date：2025-04-15 21:57:04
It's no secret — your phone knows where you are, and if that data exists, someone else probably has it. Today, we dive into the murky world of the market for smartphone location data: How some apps surreptitiously track their users without their developers ever knowing, the political implications of companies and governments knowing where people are, and what one snarky weather app is doing about it.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCasts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (81)
Related
- Paige Bueckers vs. Hannah Hidalgo highlights women's basketball games to watch
- Body found by hunter in Missouri in 1978 identified as missing Iowa girl
- Lizzo says she's not leaving music industry, clarifies I QUIT statement
- Courageous K-9 killed while protecting officer from MS-13 gang members during Virginia prison attack, officials say
- Meet the volunteers risking their lives to deliver Christmas gifts to children in Haiti
- Russia: US shares blame in a concert hall attack claimed by Islamic militants
- Lawsuit challenges Alabama restrictions on absentee ballot help
- Kiss sells catalog, brand name and IP. Gene Simmons assures fans it is a ‘collaboration’
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Owner of Baffert-trained Muth sues Churchill Downs seeking to allow horse to run in Kentucky Derby
Ranking
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Triathlon
- One Tech Tip: How to use apps to track and photograph the total solar eclipse
- Texas emergency management chief believes the state needs its own firefighting aircraft
- Cole Sprouse Shares How Riverdale Costar Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa Influenced His Love Life
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
- NFL Star Vontae Davis’ Final Moments Before Death Revealed by Brother Vernon Davis
- Caitlin Clark wins second straight national player of the year award
- What is ghee and why has it become so popular?
Recommendation
Costco membership growth 'robust,' even amid fee increase: What to know about earnings release
University of Kentucky Dancer Kate Kaufling Dead at 20
Lawsuit asks judge to disqualify ballot measure that seeks to repeal Alaska’s ranked voting system
After voters reject tax measure, Chiefs and Royals look toward future, whether in KC or elsewhere
Trump issues order to ban transgender troops from serving openly in the military
British billionaire Joe Lewis may dodge prison time at his sentencing for insider trading
Woman convicted 22 years after husband's remains found near Michigan blueberry field: Like a made-for-TV movie
Months ahead of the presidential election, Nebraska’s GOP governor wants a winner-take-all system