In the weeks leading up to March 13, thousands of college-goers from across the country’s central and eastern parts, descended upon the sunny beaches of Florida for the annual spring break revelry. From sharing space on a single Fort Lauderdale beach, the phones were tracked back to across the United States, according to a visualisation released by Tectonix GEO. “Through a partnership with X-Mode, we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Ft Lauderdale beach during spring break,” said Tectonix, while posting the visualisation on Twitter. X-Mode, the company that collated the location information, describes its services as “industry-leading, powerful location collection technology”. The company says it can help clients “boost income, utilize location data, and grow your influence network”.

Source: Hindustan Times March 29, 2020 19:30 UTC