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Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data – The Verge
X-Mode has technology in hundreds of apps that collects users’ location data to sell it. Apple and Google have just banned it from their app stores.
Developers have been given a week or two to remove the tracking tech
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
You may have never heard of the company X-Mode Social, but its code may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data. Now, Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to it. According to a Wall Street Journal article, the tech companies have told developers to remove X-Modes code from their apps, or risk getting them pulled from their respective app stores.
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