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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy

Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers with software development kits (SDKs) that make it easy to monetize their apps. But those same SDKs can automatically feed users’ location data into ad systems that location data brokers use to track people. Many developers may not even be aware of this privacy violation, let alone the users who are directly affected. When developers let advertising SDKs collect location data, they’re putting users at risk of more than just creepy

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Published: 4 August 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Privacy
Retrieved: 5 August 2026

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ethics.ai (4 August 2026), “Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location Privacy,” evidence record 16311, https://ethics.ai/record/16311 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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