Redmob generates 5,580,909,119 pings per month from devices in Canada [5,411,826,014 events with IP-derived location data and 169,083,105 events with GPS-derived location data]. Given Canada’s population of 41 million...CND devices are pinged on average 136 times per month or 4.5 times per day."

...for 1.5 billion devices covering 123 countries to provide clients with real-time insights on consumers’ country, city, latitude and longitude, location accuracy in meters, IP address, browser language, gender, year of birth and MAID (Mobile Advertising ID) (Datarade and Redmob 2024)...

Thanks for giving me something to ponder today as I've been shovelling snow @aramsinn.bsky.social

It's like when my archives prof told us about a researcher who requested access to a pocket sized book, not so they could read it but so they could learn about historic pocket sizes. But in this case we have data on how you've interacted with your friends online repurposed to destroy democracy.

There’s nothing like banning a pop culture phenomenon to radicalize the youth

When you have no librarians left to do collection development due to chronic underfunding, it's easy to imagine some institutions turning to book ban automation tools like the one described here.