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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 21, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of August 21st, 2020 How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK Some of the apps on your smartphone could be sending information back to the government. The Wall Street Journal reports that the US government is actively tracking smartphones through a software development … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 21, 2020”

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  • Aug 11, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK

A Virginia based government contracting firm called Anomaly Six LLC has been revealed to be inserting a proprietary software development kit (SDK) into over five hundred mobile apps then sharing gathered data with the government. This government tracking system for smartphones is now out in the open thanks to a report by the Wall Street … Continue reading “How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK”

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