Muslim Pro, a popular prayer app, stops providing user data to firm selling to US military.
The article reports on decision of Islamic lifestyle application (app) MuslimPro to stop selling its users' location data to technology firm, X-Mode, that resells that information to the U.S. military. Topics discussed include agency that purchased location data mined from the apps in order to suppo...
| Publicado en: | Christian Century Vol. 137; no. 26; pp. 17 - 19 |
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Christian Century
12/16/2020
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| Sumario: | The article reports on decision of Islamic lifestyle application (app) MuslimPro to stop selling its users' location data to technology firm, X-Mode, that resells that information to the U.S. military. Topics discussed include agency that purchased location data mined from the apps in order to support overseas missions, reaction of Muslims to the app's sale of its user data, and Android apps that were transmitting sensitive, non-anonymous user data to Facebook. |
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