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==Location industry==
There are various companies that sell access to an individual's location history and this is estimated to be a $12 billion industry composed of collectors, aggregators and marketplaces. As of 2021, a company named Near claimed to have data from 1.6 billion people in 44 different countries, [[Mobilewalla]] claims data on 1.9 billion devices, and [[X-Mode social|X-Mode]] claims to have a database of 25 percent of the U.S. adult population. An analysis, conducted by the non-profit newsroom called [[The Markup]], found six out of 47 companies who claimed over a billion devices in their database. As of 2021, there are no rules or laws governing who can buy an individual's data.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Keegan |first1=Jon |last2=Alfred |first2=Ng |url=https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibillion-dollar-market-for-your-phones-location-data |title=There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data |work=[[The Markup]] |date=2021-09-30 |access-date=2021-10-01 }}</ref>