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>you know your cell phone carrier already has this data right?

No, they don't. My carrier has coarse location data because they know which cell tower served me. Uber has much more precise GPS data. That's the difference between knowing that I'm in the same building as Edward Snowden and knowing that I'm in the same neighborhood.




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