How Everyday Apps Feed Police Surveillance

Ryan Gallagher, an investigative journalist at Bloomberg, reported that location data collected through smartphone apps can be sold to law enforcement agencies without users' knowledge of where their information ends up. Gallagher described how Penlink's surveillance technology uses commercially obtained data to track phones. Bloomberg reported that the practice has prompted calls for greater privacy protections and oversight.

• Bloomberg — How Everyday Apps Feed Police Surveillance

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