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Another day, another location data scandal we probably won't do anything about. Joseph Cox, a one-man wrecking ball on the location data privacy beat the last few years, has revealed how a popular Muslim prayer app has been collecting and selling granular user location data without those users' informed consent. Like so many apps, Salaat…
Turning location services off only prevents smartphone apps from receiving location data. Smartphones can still be located by cell towers and wireless networks.
Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to surveil the movements of millions of people. Many of the mobile apps on our cell phones track our movements with great precision and frequency. Data...
Al-Moazin and Qibla Compass among dozens of apps containing 'malware' developed by a company with ties to US defence contractors
We have welcomed into our lives an entire ecosystem of tracking tools designed with minimal safeguards against abuse.