Fact check
Is it true: Data Broker Location-Tracking Claims?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Data brokers collecting and selling detailed location data is confirmed: FTC enforcement actions, a Senate investigation and investigative journalism have documented the practice, including sales revealing visits to medical facilities and religious sites. The evidence does not support the more extreme claim of total, inescapable surveillance, because the industry is not uniform and state privacy laws and GDPR have added real protections.
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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