Incredible data （武器などの）隠匿場所 shows smartphones are 内密に 跡をつけるing 12million Americans and how 使用者s at 極度の慎重さを要する 場所／位置s 含むing the White House can be easily identified as 軍の 公式の／役人s, 警官，（賞などを）獲得するs and even people visiting 売春婦s

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A 漏れるd data 始める，決める of the 独房 phone 場所 data of 12 million people in the U.S. has 明らかにする／漏らすd the 脅すing level of 詳細（に述べる） collected on Americans by a 大部分は unregulated 産業.

The とじ込み／提出する consisting of 50 billion 場所 pings was 漏れるd to the New York Times and 分析するd in an opinion piece that shows how 場所 data can be used to 明らかにする／漏らす the most intimate secrets.

The data from 早期に 2017, 代表するing just a fraction of the 場所 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） collected daily by a bevy of smartphone apps, shows the movements of millions of phones in several major U.S. cities, 含むing?Washington, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Though 表面上は 匿名の／不明の, the data was 平易な to unmask by に引き続いて the phones as they traveled between a person's work and home.?

A 漏れるd data 始める，決める of the 独房 phone 場所 data of 12 million people in the U.S. has 明らかにする／漏らすd the 脅すing level of 詳細（に述べる） collected on Americans (在庫／株 image)

'With the help of 公然と 利用できる （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, like home 演説（する）／住所s, we easily identified and then 跡をつけるd 得点する／非難する／２０s of 著名なs,' wrote Times 新聞記者／雑誌記者s Stuart A. Thompson and Charlie Warzel.

'We followed 軍の 公式の／役人s with 安全 通関手続き／一掃s as they drove home at night. We 跡をつけるd 警官s as they took their kids to school. We watched high-力／強力にするd lawyers (and their guests) as they traveled from 私的な jets to vacation 所有物／資産／財産s,' they continued.?

The data 始める，決める 含むd 得点する／非難する／２０s of 場所 pings at 安全な・保証する 施設s, 含むing the White House and the 米国防総省.?

The data also 明らかにする／漏らすd 潜在的に embarrassing secrets, such as repeated visits to 道端 motels for visits that lasted just hours at a time.?

The Times did not 指名する anyone in the article without their 許可, however.

The data showed Ben Broili (above) as he interviewed for a 職業 with a competitor

In one 事例／患者, the data showed the phone of Microsoft 従業員 traveling to the main Seattle campus of a 最高の，を越す competitor, アマゾン, on a Tuesday afternoon.

The に引き続いて month, the person took a 職業 at アマゾン. The resear chers quickly identified him as Ben Broli, now a 経営者／支配人 for アマゾン Prime 空気／公表する, a drone 配達／演説／出産 service.

'I can't say I'm surprised,' Broili told told the Times when he learned of the 詳細（に述べる）s collected on his movements. 'But knowing that you all can get ahold of it and 徹底的に捜す through and place me to see where I work and live ― that's weird.'

Though most people are aware that their smartphone apps 利用する their 場所 data, many, like Broili, would be surprised to learn the extent to which that data is collected, 蓄える／店d, and resold in a 広大な 産業 that 跡をつけるs nearly every American on a daily basis.

The data from 早期に 2017, 代表するing just a fraction of the 場所 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） collected daily by a bevy of smartphone apps, shows the movements of millions (在庫／株 image)

It is a lucrative 産業, 特に for advertisers, who use 即座の 場所 data to serve up 動きやすい 広告s. 記録，記録的な／記録するs of the data become even more 価値のある, 存在 used, for instance, to 跡をつける the 有効性 of a 主要道路 billboard on people that 運動 past it.

The data can be profitable in other ways 同様に. In a 訴訟, the city of Los Angeles has （刑事）被告 the parent company of the 天候 Channel app of 採掘 場所 data to sell analytical services to hedge 基金s.?

場所 data is also collected and resold と一緒に a 動きやすい advertising ID number, which is 恐らく 匿名の／不明の but can be tied to such （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） such as your email, phone number, or even your home WiFi 網状組織.???

Paul Ohm, a 法律 professor and privacy 研究員 at the Georgetown University 法律 中心, told the Times that 述べるing 場所 data as 匿名の／不明の is 'a 完全に 誤った （人命などを）奪う，主張する.'?

'Really 正確な, longitudinal geolocation （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） is 絶対 impossible to anonymize.'

'D.N.A.,' he 追加するd, 'is probably the only thing that's harder to anonymize than 正確な geolocation （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）.'

にもかかわらず the 可能性のある 侵入占拠 on privacy, the 産業 is 大部分は unregulated, relying on the self-指導／手引 of companies and 産業 groups.?

'If a 私的な company is 合法的に collecting 場所 data, they're 解放する／自由な to spread it or 株 it however they want,' Calli Schroeder, a lawyer for the privacy and data 保護 company VeraSafe, told the Times.?