📍 The Sneaky Code Tracking App Users | EFFector 38.15
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a report examining how advertising libraries embedded in mobile apps can cause those apps to leak user location data, sometimes without the app developers being aware it is happening.
Why this matters: Ad libraries are third-party code that developers drop into apps to make money. Most developers do not write that code and do not fully control what it does. If those libraries are quietly siphoning location data, users have no way to know, and the developer may not either. Location data is not abstract. It can reveal where you worship, who you sleep with, whether you visited a clinic, or where your kids go to school. The companies profiting from that data are rarely the ones you handed your phone to.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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