Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
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Some of the world’s most popular apps appear to have had users' precise location data harvested at scale via the advertising real-time bidding (RTB) ecosystem; hacked files linked to Gravy Analytics reportedly include thousands of apps and suggest the data broker sourced location information from ad bid streams and has previously sold location data to US law enforcement, creating major privacy and data-brokerage concerns.
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