U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. In the WSJ News Exclusive artice, Asif Khan comments that the government acquisition of consumer location data has been a longstanding issue for the industry and app-makers should be more transparent with consumers about how the data may be used once it is collected.
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones