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Well, it could also be about the sort of data the company is collecting. Here in NYC there have been smaller protests in neighborhoods that are predominantly PoC, and this company may be only collecting data on the main large events.

Also, for a place like LA, there are systemic factors of poverty and homelessness in their Black populations that might make something like ownership of a permanent mobile number less likely [1].

Regardless, this practice of data harvesting should be illegal.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-13/column-a...



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