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#iOS und #Android :android: Apps wie #WetterOnline , #Flightradar24 , #FocusOnline und #Kleinanzeigen sind betroffen

Standort-Tracking weit verbreitet: Mehr als 40.000 Apps sammeln Positionsdaten | Security https://www.heise.de/news/Standort-Tracking-weit-verbreitet-Mehr-als-40-000-Apps-sammeln-Positionsdaten-10243629.html #Datenschutz #privacy #DSGVO #GDPR #GravyAnalytics

Wenn Erlösmaximierung zur illegalen Gier wird! 😤

"Albtraumszenario": Candy Crush, Tinder und Co: Über welche Apps der Standort von Smartphone-Usern ausspioniert wird

"Ein Hack des #Datenhändler's #GravyAnalytics gibt einen unerfreulichen Einblick in jenes Geschäft, über das sensible Daten bei zweifelhaften Firmen landen"
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000252373/candy-crush-tinder-und-co-ueber-welche-apps-der-standort-von-smartphone-usern-ausspioniert-wird

"Einer der bekanntesten US-Databroker wurde offenbar Ziel eines Hackerangriffs: Gravy Analytics. Es geht um gigantische Mengen von Standortdaten, gesammelt durch populäre Handy-Apps. Erste Ausschnitte der erbeuteten Daten halten Fachleute für authentisch."

Leider werden wahrscheinlich wieder viele, viele Menschen glauben, dass es sie nichts anginge - weil sie ja auch nix zu verbergen hätten ...

#datenschutz #GravyAnalytics #hack #privacy #datenbroker

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/gigantisches-daten-leak-droht-hacker-wollen-bestaende-von-us-databroker-veroeffentlichen/

"Some of the world’s most popular apps are likely being co-opted by rogue members of the advertising industry to harvest sensitive location data on a massive scale, with that data ending up with a location data company whose subsidiary has previously sold global location data to US law enforcement.

The thousands of apps, included in hacked files from location data company Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush and dating apps like Tinder to pregnancy tracking and religious prayer apps across both Android and iOS. Because much of the collection is occurring through the advertising ecosystem—not code developed by the app creators themselves—this data collection is likely happening without users’ or even app developers’ knowledge.

“For the first time publicly, we seem to have proof that one of the largest data brokers selling to both commercial and government clients appears to be acquiring their data from the online advertising ‘bid stream,’” rather than code embedded into the apps themselves, Zach Edwards, senior threat analyst at cybersecurity firm Silent Push and who has followed the location data industry closely, tells 404 Media after reviewing some of the data."

https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

#USA #DataBrokers #DataBrokerage #Surveillance #LocationData #GravyAnalytics

#CandyCrush , #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal : See the Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

A hack of location data company #GravyAnalytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
#privacy #geolocation #tracking #surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i-tracked-down-the-surveillants/

and the reactions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25288341

@aeris you're not the only one very determined to know what's going on with your data!

I personally choose the easy way, I use #ubuntuTouch by @ubports instead of #android or #ios

#privacy #datamining #venntel #GravyAnalytics #predicio #Complementics #sygic