How the government can get your location data from apps on your phone
Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. If you’re relying on Apple’s and Google’s app store rules to keep your location data safe from companies that sell it to the government, you might want to rethink that policy. But if you’re relying on the legal system to stop government agencies from buying that data, you might be in luck — maybe. A new Treasury Department inspector general report says that it doesn’t believe agencies have the legal right to b...
Source: vox.com