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Secret government tracking software hidden in apps - Android Authority
Aug 07, 2020 38 secs

The contractor — a Virginia-based company called Anomaly Six LLC — pays mobile developers to include its in-house tracking code within their apps.

The trackers then collect anonymized data from our phones and Anomaly Six aggregates that data and sells it to the US government.

The report from The Wall Street Journal makes it clear that the tracking software from Anomaly Six appears in over 500 mobile applications.

Therefore, you could have one or even dozens of apps with Anomaly Six’s government tracking code and you would have no idea.

Since Anomaly Six doesn’t disclose its government tracking software, there’s no way to opt-out.

Since the idea of tracking location data via smartphones is still so new, laws and regulations related to the practice are behind the curve.

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