Collecting and Selling Mobile Phone Location Data

Schneier on Security 2020-08-11

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The Wall Street Journal has an article about a company called Anomaly Six LLC that has an SDK that's used by "more than 500 mobile applications." Through that SDK, the company collects location data from users, which it then sells. Anomaly Six is a federal contractor that provides global-location-data products to branches of the U.S. government and private-sector clients. The...

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Bruce Schneier

Date tagged:

08/11/2020, 16:44

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08/11/2020, 07:00