FEATURING PROF. JIM DEMPSEY – The New York Times as part of its Privacy Project has published an explosive investigative account of how cellphone location data farmed by private companies through innocuous apps can be used to track our every move. Companies are gathering and storing this data, asking the public to trust that it is all anonymous, that they will keep it safe and not sell it or disclose it to hackers. But the tracking data is easy to obtain and analyze and poses serious opportunities for abuses by both governments and corporations.