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flouryhedgehog:alexseanchai:azepci:sunfortune:freezingbeach:https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x delete muslim pro[ID: a tweet from Jason Koebler that reads: "SCOOP: The U.S. Military is buying user location data harvested from a Muslim prayer app that has been downloaded by 98 million people around the world, is using this type of data for “counterterrorism.”” Included is the above link to a VICE article titled “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps.”the second image is another tweet, this time from AJ+ that reads: “The U.S. military is buying location data about Muslims retrieved by Muslim dating and prayer apps, per VICE.Apps include Muslim Pro (150 million downloads) and Muslim Mingle. The data is reportedly collected by a third party called X-Mode, which then sells it to contractors.” included is an image of the app “Muslim Pro: Azan, Quran, Qibla.” END ID]people in the notes are variously saying:(1) everyone delete these apps so they can’t collect any more of this data(2) non-Muslims get these apps; people who already have these apps, get VPNs so you seem to be somewhere else entirely; objective is to add enough data the data-buyers don’t want and can’t sift out to make the data they do want useless to them(3) neither of those strategies will help because the people who want this data already have this usable data…do we have any experts in the houseAdditionally, does using a VPN make an adhan app unusable for its primary purpose? Prayer times are dependent on the location, so it’s not much use to have an adhan app think you’re in Johannesburg if you’re actually in Atlanta. I am not any flavor of expert, but I think the best thing for adhan apps specifically is to turn off the automatic location feature. Enter your location manually, and if you travel, change it manually. -- source link