The lack of strong data protection across most of the world, combined with the need for free smartphone apps and services to create some amount of revenue, has often led to private user data being shared with third parties. This time around, several high-profile Android apps have been sending location data to data brokers, which in turn are selling them to defense contractors working for the US military.
According to an investigative report by Vice, the US military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world.
Read MoreUnited States military has been purchasing user location data from apps with millions of downloads was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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