NYT: How data companies quietly collect users’ locations for profit

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An investigation from The New York Times revealed how dozens of companies log location data from the phones of more than 12 million Americans. Those companies go largely unregulated, while buying and reselling the data for their own profit. Charlie Warzel, a writer-at-large for The New York Times opinion page, joined CBSN to discuss just how much these companies can learn about you with that information.

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