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		bawolff 23 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US... I believe there are companies that offer more accurate geolocation services by essentially having a deal with phone companies where they get secret info where the customer actually is from mobile companies records.

SmirkingRevenge 22 days ago [–]

You can definitely buy cellphone location data but afaik it's anonymized with an mobile identification #.

But there may be ways to link those records to a platform's users

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