{"id":1259,"date":"2025-01-11T05:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/apps-that-are-spying-on-your-location-html\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T05:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T05:13:21","slug":"apps-that-are-spying-on-your-location-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/apps-that-are-spying-on-your-location-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps That Are Spying on Your Location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Apps That Are Spying on Your Location<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>404 Media is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location\/\">reporting<\/a> on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The thousands of apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data\/\">included in hacked files<\/a> from location data company Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush to 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\u00ad\u2014not code developed by the app creators themselves\u2014\u00adthis data collection is likely happening both without users\u2019 and even app developers\u2019 knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/01\/apps-that-are-spying-on-your-location.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apps That Are Spying on Your Location 404 Media is reporting on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics: The thousands of apps, included in hacked files from location data company Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush to dating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,57,250,488,82,97,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adware","category-bruce-schneier","category-cyberespionage","category-data-collection","category-geolocation","category-hacking","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}