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Amazon sued for snarfing sensitive data via advertising SDK

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Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims

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It’s in the URL, so they changed it when they realized it didn’t do too well. Happens a lot with news articles. Based on click rate, one version will be declared the best.
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  Thank you, that makes sense.

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