Web desk,<\/p>\n
The US military has purchased\u00a0 the location data of millions of Muslims from around the world who use a popular prayer app and a Muslim dating app, Vice\u2019s Motherboard\u00a0 reported. The report found that Muslim Pro, an app which gives precise daily prayer times and also gives users the\u00a0 direction to Mecca in relation to their current location, was sending user data to X-Mode.<\/p>\n
Another app that was found sending user data to X-Mode was Muslim Mingle, a dating app that has been downloaded more than 100,000 times.<\/p>\n
The technology website reported that the US military used two separate methods to obtain the location data of users. The first involved a product called Locate X.<\/p>\n
The second method to obtain data involved a company called X-Mode, which obtains location data directly from apps\u00a0 then sells that data to contractors, and by extension, to the US military.<\/p>\n
Muslim Pro touts itself as the \u201cMost Popular Muslim App!\u201d\u00a0and also includes passages and audio readings from the Quran.<\/p>\n
The app has been downloaded over 50 million times across the world on Android devices, according to the Google Play Store, and over 95\u00a0million in total across other platforms including iOS, according to Muslim Pro\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
According to Motherboard, US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a branch of the military tasked with\u00a0 counterterrorism, counterinsurgency and special reconnaissance, bought access to Locate X to assist on overseas special forces operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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