EFF Finds Android Apps with 60M Downloads Silently Sharing Users' Location via Ad SDKs

The EFF identified Android apps with a combined 60 million downloads quietly transmitting users' precise location data to third-party advertising services through embedded ad SDKs. Network traffic analysis confirmed the data flows. Android's permission model grants SDKs the same location access as the host app, with no SDK-specific consent mechanism. The EFF urged developers to disable unnecessary collection.