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Fog Data Science, Your Hometown Data Broker

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2022 by Anthony Accurso published in Criminal Legal News January, 2023, page 48
Filed under: Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet, Cell-Phone Location/Tracking Data, Cell Site Location Information ("CSLI"). Location: United States of America.

by Anthony W. Accurso

Criminal Legal News has previously reported on data broker companies — companies that buy and sell data on consumers, most often location data harvested from mobile apps. Fog Data Science is one such company, though one that some believe is quite possibly more dangerous to ...

 

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