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1,100 apps busted spying on seniors and selling their location data

The Federal Trade Commission’s December 2024 crackdown on three major data brokers exposed how location data from roughly 1,100 mobile apps quietly flowed into a surveillance market built on seniors’ ...
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How the Government Uses Advertising Data to Track People (and What You Can Do to Limit It)

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...