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U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

Yassin OsmanYassin Osman
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23rd November 2020
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10:45 pm
29th March 2021
U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Mass privacy breach by Muslim Pro(Getty).

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Users have taken to Twitter to denounce various apps, particularly Muslim Pro, following an exposé by vice that uncovered how the US military is procuring the location data of Muslims worldwide. Twitter users have repeatedly shared that Muslim Pro had been selling the data of its users to the US military.



Muslim Pro has denied that it has sold its users’ location data to the US military, but the report by Vice’s Motherboard shows otherwise.

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