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...

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Publicado en:Christian Century Vol. 137; no. 26; pp. 17 - 19
Autor principal: Khan, Aysha
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Publicado: Christian Century 12/16/2020
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