Agencies have said that they aren’t doing anything illegal since they’re simply buying commercially available data supplied by users who consented for that data to be collected.

Well clearly we were concerned about nothing, pack it in boys nothing to see here!

On a serious note enjoyed the article, and glad it expanded on the X-Mode tracker issue from earlier last year - somehow not surprised that removing the SDK from apps wasnt something that managed to happen.

That’s why I like/use f-droid

“they aren’t doing anything illegal” are you sure ?

starting by the cross shit options instead being disabled by default, are enabled by default