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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Political candidates are learning a lot about you -- thanks to your phone tracking you

    It should come as no surprise that your phone is tracking you when you’re shopping online. But now you can be tracked based on where you go in the real world, like a political rally.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 21, 2019 • 1 min read

    It should come as no surprise that your phone is tracking you when you’re shopping online. But now you can be tracked based on where you go in the real world, like a political rally. Political campaigns are using this kind of technology -- called digital fencing -- to send targeted ads to potential voters for months after the fact.

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    4 of 4
    Will free medical school make health care more affordable?
    1. 0:00Will free med school help lower America’s health care costs?
    2. 11:20Why the stalker boyfriend in the TV show ‘You’ is appealing to women
    3. 24:34In ‘Of Fathers and Sons,’ what it’s like living among terrorists
    4. 39:35Political candidates are learning a lot about you -- thanks to your phone tracking youYou’re reading this
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