{
  "id": 16310,
  "url": "https://www.eff.org/press/releases/mobile-ad-software-encourages-location-data-sharing-eff-report-finds",
  "title": "Mobile Ad Software Encourages Location Data Sharing, EFF Report Finds",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Josh Richman",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T19:30:41.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "eff",
  "source_name": "EFF Deeplinks",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.eff.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16310",
  "original_url": "https://www.eff.org/press/releases/mobile-ad-software-encourages-location-data-sharing-eff-report-finds",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}