Tag - adware

Apps That Are Spying on Your Location
404 Media is reporting on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics: > The thousands of apps, included in hacked files from location data company > Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush to dating apps > like Tinder, to pregnancy tracking and religious prayer apps across both > Android and iOS. Because much of the collection is occurring through the > advertising ecosystem­—not code developed by the app creators themselves—­this > data collection is likely happening both without users’ and even app > developers’ knowledge...
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hacking
geolocation
cyberespionage
data collection