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Yes except they only have your location and that may not be acceptable to some. Google on the otherhand has much more than just your location - everything you look at, everything you buy, every email/text conversation

Your cellular carrier also has your identity and your billing address.

Companies that have chosen a surveillance capitalism business model have way more personal data, but they claim that they aren't selling that data to anyone willing to cut them a check the way that the carriers and app developers do.

However, data hordes stored by Google/Facebook/etc are still subject to warrants, so how much do you trust that warrants will not be abused?

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