Databroker Files: New data set reveals 40,000 apps behind location tracking

380 million location data from 137 countries: a previously unknown data set from a US data broker shows the dangers of global data trading. 40,000 apps are affected, including queer dating apps. For some apps, the shared location data is very precise.
Data about users of popular apps end up at data brokers–Handy: Pixabay; App-Icons: Freepik; Auge: Auge: maxpixel.net/CCO; Nebel: Vecteezy; Montage: netzpolitik.orgThis is the English summary of a longer German-language article. The publicatio