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That digital billboard may know you drove past

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That glowing highway advertisement is watching you right back. Modern digital billboards contain hidden technology that logs the location data emitting from the mobile phones inside passing cars, allowing corporations to perfectly measure exact physical exposure rates to their massive glowing corporate messaging.

That digital billboard may know you drove past
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