{"id":13725,"date":"2020-08-11T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=13725"},"modified":"2020-08-26T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:54:15","slug":"how-the-government-legally-tracks-your-smartphone-use-with-the-anomaly-six-sdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/how-the-government-legally-tracks-your-smartphone-use-with-the-anomaly-six-sdk\/","title":{"rendered":"How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-government-contractor-embedded-software-in-apps-to-track-phones-11596808801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Despite their best efforts to find out what those apps are, Anomaly Six did not provide that information when asked, and the SDK itself is intentionally obfuscated. Since there\u2019s no indication if the app you\u2019re using is tracking you for the government, there is intrinsically no way to opt out.<\/p>\n<h2>Your smartphone likely contains a popular mobile app with a government tracker<\/h2>\n<p>Usually it\u2019s easier to discover if an SDK is being used in a mobile application \u2013 as we\u2019ve seen with the often found Facebook SDK that is often added for Facebook based login. Anomaly Six\u2019s SDK tracker does not need to be disclosed to users, though. This means there are no indications in privacy policies or code that the app you\u2019re using is actually a figurative government mole. Since we don\u2019t know which 500 apps are feeding our information back to any number of three letter agencies, it\u2019s really best to assume that your smartphone is always doing so. The shocking thing is that this method of exfiltrating data from users through third parties and software agreements is not illegal. That is because the data is supposedly anonymized and isn\u2019t being sold for marketing or advertising purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the public took Zoom to task for including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/thousands-of-android-apps-are-violating-child-privacy-laws\/\">Facebook SDK<\/a> in their mobile app even though login by Facebook wasn\u2019t even an active option. Zoom quickly removed the SDK but the damage to their reputation was done. People were understandably not comfortable with Facebook getting their information \u2013 and arguably the government having that access is even worse\u2026 Especially since we don\u2019t even know what the government uses this data for.<\/p>\n<p>This revelation that the government is using the exact same method to get location data and more from our very own pockets should be a wake up call for the world\u2019s smartphone users. The government has a history of using third parties when possible to legally obtain intel that can\u2019t be sought by the government itself. The third party government collaborator could be your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/your-cell-phone-carrier-is-selling-your-real-time-location-data-to-third-parties\/\">mobile data provider<\/a>, the companies behind the apps you are using, or even in the hardware manufacturers themselves. Trust is hard to come by, and once there\u2019s more information on which popular apps include the Anomaly Six SDK, it should be a clear sign of which companies are willing to sacrifice the privacy of their users just because the government asks or pays for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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