For many apps, granting permission to access your device’s precise location makes sense. Your favorite weather app needs to know where you are to get the day’s forecast, or your go-to fitness app for tracking your running route.
But some apps are also inadvertently sharing their users’ location data with third parties, including advertisers and data brokers, because the app developer may not know that this data-sharing setting is enabled by default.
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