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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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App trackers secretly sell your location data to the government. App stores won’t stop them. (www.vox.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

Agencies have said that they aren’t doing anything illegal since they’re simply buying commercially available data supplied by users who consented for that data to be collected.

Well clearly we were concerned about nothing, pack it in boys nothing to see here!

On a serious note enjoyed the article, and glad it expanded on the X-Mode tracker issue from earlier last year - somehow not surprised that removing the SDK from apps wasnt something that managed to happen.