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this doesn’t apply to me but in case anyone is using this app apparently muslimpro is selling your location data to the us military lol. i guess you could deny access to your location?

also included the Craigslist app and more

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there are so many articles like this that come out OFTEN about apps and services in the US. do not let anyone tell you it is just companies spying on you or “i dont have anything incriminating” or “spooky Chinese surveillance on TikTok,” the apps you use are directly spying on you for law enforcement, and making a LOT of money doing it.

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's
vice.com
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Agencies Use Cellphone Location Data for Immigration Enforcement
The Trump administration has been using a database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones to monitor the Mexican border and make
WSJ
Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms
An internal Secret Service document describes the purchase of Locate X, a product that uses location data harvested from ordinary apps.
vice.com
Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”
vice.com
How Police Fund Surveillance Technology is Part of the Problem
Law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local level are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on surveillance technolo
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA
A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companie
BuzzFeed News

i could give you hundreds of these. and these are just this year. there’s everything from ISPs and cell phone companies selling your data to law enforcement, to Twitter and the CIA co-investing in a “newsgathering” startup.

[ID: Two tweets about a vice.com article titled “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps.” The first is from @/overdramatique. It links reads, “I can’t believe MuslimPro is selling us out like this, time to start using a stick and checking the shadows to figure out salah times.”

The second tweet, from @/jason_koebler, says, “The companies and apps that are doing this - which include a Craigslist app I was using until I edited this story, a level app, a Muslim dating app, a storm weather app, among others - largely said they don’t give a shit what happens with the data.” This is followed by an excerpt from the article, which reads,

“YanFlex, the developer behind the CPlus for Craigslist app, also did not appear to know that X-Mode works with military contractors. “I don’t think what you described is true,” they incorrectly wrote in an email when asked for comment.

“Accupedo, the step tracking app, told Motherboard in an email that “We do not speak publicly about the relationships we have with our partners. If you are interested in our relationship with X-Mode, you can contact them directly.”

“"We are comfortable with how X-Mode uses location data,“ Neil Kelly, president and chief developer of Kelly Technology, which makes the Global Storms app, told Motherboard in an email.”

/end ID]

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