List of thousands of popular apps that collect data

Some of the most popular apps in the world have been chosen by members of the advertising industry to collect sensitive location data on a massive scale. These they trace back to a location data company whose subsidiary has previously sold global location data to US law enforcement.

The thousands of apps, which carry files from location data company Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush to dating apps like Tinder. Pregnancy tracker apps or religious prayer apps on both Android and iOS. Because the sensitive data is collected through the advertising ecosystem and not through code developed by the app creators themselves, the data collection takes place without the knowledge of the users or even the developers of the apps.

“Για πρώτη φορά δημοσίως, έχουμε αποδείξεις ότι ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους μεσίτες δεδομένων που πωλεί τόσο σε εμπορικούς όσο και σε κυβερνητικούς πελάτες φαίνεται να αποκτά τα δεδομένα του από τη διαδικτυακή διαφήμιση “ροή προσφορών” αντί να ενσωματώνεται κώδικας στις ίδιες τις εφαρμογές, ανέφερε ο Zach Edwards, ανώτερος αναλυτής στην εταιρεία s Silent Push to 404 Media when he reviewed some of the data.

“Είναι ένα εφιαλτικό σενάριο για το απόρρητο, επειδή αυτή η δεδομένων δεν περιέχει μόνο δεδομένα που έχουν αφαιρεθεί από συστήματα RTB, αλλά υπάρχει και κάποια εταιρεία που λειτουργεί σαν παγκόσμιος αποδέκτης, και κάνει ό,τι θέλει με αυτά τα δεδομένα που συλλέγει”, λέει ο Edwards.

Gravy's data includes tens of millions of mobile phone coordinates of devices within the US, Russia and Europe. Some of these files also list the app next to each location data box.

404 Media collected the app names and created a list. The list includes the dating sites Tinder and Grindr. Popular games like Candy Crush, Temple Run, Subway Surfers and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells.

The Moovit app? My Period & Tracker, a period tracking app with over 10 million downloads.

Η δημοφιλής εφαρμογή γυμναστικής MyFitnessPal. Το κοινωνικό δίκτυο Tumblr. Ο of Yahoo. The Microsoft 365 office application and the flight tracker Flightradar24.

The list also mentions many religious apps, various pregnancy tracking apps, and many VPN apps.

See the full list of apps.

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