Lawmakers Demand Answers from Military on Muslim App Data
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akd9dz/muslim-data-military-lawmakers
A group of over a dozen lawmakers led by Representative Mark Pocan, including Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are demanding answers from military and intelligence chiefs on how the U.S. military has purchased location data.
The move comes after Motherboard revealed how a company called X-Mode harvested granular location data from multiple Muslim-focused apps, including a Quran app called Muslim Pro with over 98 million downloads. X-Mode sells location data to military contractors, and by extension, U.S. military intelligence.
Lawmakers Demand Answers from Military on Muslim App Data
Feb 18, 2021, 5:36pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akd9dz/muslim-data-military-lawmakers
> A group of over a dozen lawmakers led by Representative Mark Pocan, including Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are demanding answers from military and intelligence chiefs on how the U.S. military has purchased location data.
> The move comes after Motherboard revealed how a company called X-Mode harvested granular location data from multiple Muslim-focused apps, including a Quran app called Muslim Pro with over 98 million downloads. X-Mode sells location data to military contractors, and by extension, U.S. military intelligence.