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Fact check

Is it true: Data Broker Location-Tracking Claims?

Confirmed82% confidence

Yes — this is confirmed.

Draft only: distinguish confirmed data-broker privacy harms from unsupported claims of omniscient tracking.

The claim

Claims about commercial data brokers collecting, selling, or exposing location data in ways that enable surveillance.

Key evidence

FTC 2014 report documented data brokers maintaining profiles with hundreds of data points per individual

Not all data brokers collect raw precision GPS data

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