In 2021, one of the most powerful Catholic officials in America resigned in disgrace. Not because of an investigator, a warrant, or a wiretap, but because a small newsletter bought a trove of “anonymized” phone-app data, the kind brokers sell to anyone, and combed it until one device’s nightly movements lined up with his home, his office, and the gay dating app Grindr.No crime. No court order. No law broken. A private life reverse-engineered fro…
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