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Foursquare Planning to Offer Check-in Data to Target Ads on Other Platforms

John McDermott, Gadgette, Apr 12, 2013

It should be no surprise to people to find that their FourSquare checkin data is being sold to advertisers and marketing agencies. For those who are still surprised by such news, here's the article in today's Ad Age, showing once again that if you use online platform services, your data belongs to others.

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