Your location isn't just a pin on a map—it can expose some of the most intimate details about your life. The value of this information to advertisers and others has turned the location data business into a multi-billion dollar industry. In
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, we're covering a new EFF report on how ad libraries encourage apps to leak user location data—potentially without app developers themselves even realizing it.
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actually do,
privacy-invasive legislation
advancing in the Senate, and
an EFF investigation into mobile ad software
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