A deep dive into mobile app location privacy following the InMobi settlement
By: Nithan Sannappa and Lorrie Cranor | Aug 9, 2016 12:55PM
In June, the Commission announced its first settlement with a mobile advertising network, InMobi. Among other things, the Commission’s complaint challenges the company’s location tracking practices. In this post, we explain the mechanism that the Commission alleges InMobi used to track users’ location without permission, and discuss technical steps that mobile operating systems have taken to try to address this practice.
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