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Find Your Mobile Ad ID

Your MAID is the key to deleting your location history.

You are being tracked.

They use your phone's MAID to connect location history to other data they know about you.

Your Mobile Advertising ID (MAID) is a unique identifier that advertisers and data brokers use to track your mobile activity and tie it to your location data.

Whether you’re using an iPhone or an Android device, it’s important to know how to find and manage your MAID to protect your privacy.

Apps leak MAIDs.

Apps like Weather, Maps, Games, Cameras, and Social Media leak your location. 

Your browser can leak MAIDs.

Ads served to you, especially on Chrome, leak your MAID and location via the real-time bidding process.

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P.S. Contact ObscureIQ for information about how to delete the location history data brokers have collected about you.

Some of them have years of data about every place you and your phone have gone.

Protect Your Location Privacy with ObscureIQ™

At ObscureIQ™, we specialize in helping you remove your digital footprint, including location data collected by data brokers.

Our Footprint Wipe service is the only solution that purges your location history from hundreds of data brokers.

Experts Discuss Data Privacy

Safeguarding Your Privacy: How to Delete Your Data

David Mauro interviews Merry Marwig, a data privacy advocate, and Jeff Jockisch, founder of Obscure IQ, about how data brokers work and how to delete your data by discussing the intersection of privacy and personal data.