Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
- ID
- 10866
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 05 Aug 2026, 4:26 AM
- Fetched
- 05 Aug 2026, 5:02 AM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/android-app-developers-may-be-unwittingly-sharing-their-users-location-data-with-advertisers/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Excerpt
New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users' location data when they grant permission to the app.
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