Ads in popular apps give police a powerful tool to spy on users
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Bloomberg reports that Penlink's Webloc tool, originally developed by Israeli firm Cobwebs, collects location data from smartphones through common apps like weather, gaming, and religious apps, letting users map where phones have been over the past year.