U.S. government contractor tracked hundreds of millions of users using SDKA scathing WSJ report has the details...
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As U.S. government contractor embedded tracking software in numerous mobile apps.
That's according to a new WSJ report.
It says that hundreds of millions of users were tracked worldwide as a result.
A damning new WSJ report says a small U.S. government contractor embedded software in over 500 apps, tracking millions of people worldwide.
According to the report:
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.
Anomaly Six LLC is the company in question, apparently boasting in marketing material that it was "able to draw location data from more than 500 mobile applications" from its own software development kit, embedded directly in some apps:
Anomaly Six says it emb...
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U.S. government contractor tracked hundreds of millions of users using SDK
