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> an accurate map of where the users are with respect to where the advertisers are

Not just advertisers - accurate location context information can (on it's own or in combination with other data) de-"anonymise" location data[1]. Any new sources of data that Facebook can correlate with their existing hoard of data increases the precision of their model of everyone's pattern-of-life.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...



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