The BreakdownPrivacy
Is Momentum Shifting Toward a Ban on Behavioral Advertising?
Data-driven personalized ads are the lifeblood of the internet. To a growing number of lawmakers, they’re also nefarious
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Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data
The announcement comes after The Markup identified the family tracking app as one of the largest sources of raw data for the location data industry
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Gay/Bi Dating App, Muslim Prayer Apps Sold Data on People’s Location to a Controversial Data Broker
The Markup identified 107 apps that sold data to X‑Mode in 2018 and 2019
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Federal Study Acknowledges Failures in Police Surveillance Oversight
For years researchers have called out the Wiretap Report for being outdated and incomplete
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The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
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Thousands of Geofence Warrants Appear to Be Missing from a California DOJ Transparency Database
California requires law enforcement to report the controversial warrants to a state database—but The Markup found massive discrepancies in how they’re reported
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How Big Tech Is Pitching Digital Elder Care to Families
Spurred by the pandemic, Google, Amazon, and Apple are all offering tools for monitoring older adults, raising privacy concerns
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Help Us Find the Apps That Sell Your Location
Send us screenshots or share your knowledge of the location data industry
The BreakdownPrivacy
How Can You Safely Store Your Vaccine Status on Your Phone?
Vaccine cards don’t actually contain very much sensitive information, but you can protect it nonetheless
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There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements
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