Frederik Borgesius on Nostr: Location data collected by over a hundred Dutch apps are for sale online. It appears ...

Location data collected by over a hundred Dutch apps are for sale online.

It appears that the owner of popular weather app Buienalarm (Rain Alarm, in rough translation) does not know how the location data of its users ended up at this data broker. The app has 5 million users, a quarter of all people in The Netherlands. (Yes, it’s a rainy country.)

https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/tech-innovatie/10564779/locatiegegevens-gebruikers-buienalarm-online-te-koop

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