An investigation into business practices of data brokers in Germany by Netzpolitik and Bayerischer Rundfunk found popular apps for services, such as weather, navigation and dating, likely violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The news organizations purchased a dataset containing 3.6 billion German user data points from a U.S.-based data broker and experts interviewed inferred that user consent was not given on an informed basis for the transfer of their location data.
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