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A Muslim prayer app was doing more than reminding users to pray. It was selling their info

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 Users of the popular Muslim prayer app Muslim Pro are posting negative reviews and taking to Twitter to discuss their disappointment after a news report revealed the app was selling users’ information to companies and government agencies. An investigation and report by Vice’s Motherboard found that the app sold location data and other personal information to a third-party broker called X-Mode. X-Mode later sold that same data to defense contractors that provide information to agencies like the U.S. military.

In describing its business with military contractors, X-Mode told Vice it “primarily focused on three use cases: counter-terrorism, cybersecurity and predicting future COVID-19 hotspots." Downloaded by more than 98 million Muslims from around the world, Muslim Pro is a commonly used Islamic app that alerts Muslims to prayer times, Quranic verses, and other practices. Vice reported the app’s information, including user location data, was shared with U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), a military branch that deals with counterterrorism to assist overseas forces operations. While the U.S. military and other government agencies have been known to purchase private information gathered from apps around the world by third-party brokers. Muslim Pro was listed as the most popular app found to make money by selling user data in Vice’s Motherboard report.


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