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Can you locate your location data?

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Smartphone apps offering location data services may be desirable, but their ability to collect personal data that can be sold to third parties is less attractive.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 9
            September 2019
            95 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3358415
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