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See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked To Spy On Your Location
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Some of the world's most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a location data company whose subsidiary has previousl...
The data provides a rare glimpse inside the world of real-time bidding (RTB). But a side effect is that data brokers can listen in on that process and harvest the location of peoples' mobile phones. Included in the hacked Gravy data are tens of millions of mobile phone coordinates of devices inside the US, Russia, and Europe.
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