Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds
Developers Must Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Users’ Privacy SAN FRANCISCO – Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding users’ location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report found . EFF began investigating the location-sharing practices of various advertising SDKs to better understand the pipeline from mobile apps to locatio
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Published: 4 August 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Privacy · Finance, VC & PE
Retrieved: 5 August 2026
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