Why Your Smartphone Apps May Be Tracking You
The ExpressVPN Digital Security Lab found that trackers released by X-Mode, a data broker involved in multiple privacy scandals, are in many more apps than previously reported. X-Mode trackers appeared in apps that have been downloaded at least 1 billion times. The trackers, which can reveal your location, are raising privacy concerns. “A person’s location information reveals a lot of them,” Sean O’Brien, a principal researcher at cybersecurity firm ExpressVPN, said in an email interview....