Companies can track your phone’s movements to target ads

Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 22 September 2020
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In a climate of increasing regulation and public scrutiny, Sen thinks behavioral context will become more important as marketers can no longer assemble profiles built on a user’s online activity. Rather than knowing a user’s demographics or personal preferences, services will combine what they know about a user’s activity on their own apps with information on what they’re doing physically at the time.

Marketers don't need to know anything at all. Companies just need to create reliable and good products, and the word will go around.