Apps sold location data for US military and intelligence personnel

It was discovered last year that location data for US military and intelligence personnel serving overseas was being sold by a Florida-based data broker, but the source of that sensitive data was unclear at the time.

It’s now been revealed that the data was captured by a variety of mobile apps with revenue-sharing agreements with a Lithuanian ad-tech company, and then resold by an American company …

The problem of location data captured by apps

A great many apps capture location data. For some apps, this is clearly a…