{"id":1789833,"date":"2020-12-22T06:54:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789833"},"modified":"2020-12-22T06:54:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:54:56","slug":"apple-and-google-ban-location-tracking-sdk-from-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/apple-and-google-ban-location-tracking-sdk-from-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Google Ban Location Tracking SDK from Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month it was reported that the X-Mode software development kit, used by many apps, was collecting and selling user location data, with the U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/11\/how-the-u-s-military-buys-location-data-from-mobile-apps\/\">among the buyers<\/a>. In response, earlier this month both Apple and Google gave developers a deadline to remove X-Mode from their apps: seven days in Google\u2019s case, fourteen in Apple\u2019s. Apple found 100 apps that contained the code; X-Code claims 400 apps on all platforms, tracking 25 million devices in the U.S. and 40 million elsewhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/apple-and-google-to-stop-x-mode-from-collecting-location-data-from-users-phones-11607549061\">The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> story<\/a> is behind a paywall; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/11\/22169905\/google-apple-removing-location-tracking-data-sale-government-advertisers\"><em>The Verge<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/12\/09\/apple-bans-apps-x-mode-tracker\/\"><em>MacRumors<\/em><\/a> for summaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month it was reported that the X-Mode software development kit, used by many apps, was collecting and selling user location data, with the U.S. military among the buyers. In response, earlier this month both&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/12\/apple-and-google-ban-location-tracking-sdk-from-apps\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[107,600,420,462,260,1316,646],"class_list":["post-1789833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-geolocation","tag-google","tag-ios","tag-location-services","tag-privacy","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1808576,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/08\/online-map-roundup-for-august-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789833,"position":0},"title":"Online Map Roundup for August 2022","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 August 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Google Maps sends people looking for abortion providers to so-called crisis pregnancy centres, which discourage the procedure, Bloomberg reports. Also in Bloomberg, Mark Gurman discusses Apple\u2019s plans to expand its advertising business, which apparently includes adding ads to Apple Maps. Apple\u2019s cycling maps now include Hawaii, and its detailed 3D\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785744,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/06\/third-party-map-apps-coming-to-carplay-in-ios-12\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789833,"position":1},"title":"Third-Party Map Apps Coming to CarPlay in iOS 12","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 June 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"As of iOS 12, coming later this year, CarPlay will support third-party map applications like Google Maps and Waze, Apple announced during its WWDC keynote earlier today: AppleInsider, Engadget, The Verge. Up until now the only maps available via CarPlay were Apple's own; drivers who would rather use something else\u2014and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/carplay-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1786302,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/google-maps-adds-carplay-support\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789833,"position":2},"title":"Google Maps Adds CarPlay Support","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"20 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"iOS 12, which adds support for third-party map apps in Apple CarPlay, was released on Monday. Google wasted no time: a day after that, they released version 5 of Google Maps for iOS, which adds CarPlay support. AppleInsider has a hands-on look at Google Maps on CarPlay. 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The Motherboard expos\u00e9 details how it happened: how the location data supply chain works, and, for example, how data brokers pay app developers to incorporate their frameworks\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1811995,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/01\/online-map-roundup-for-january-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789833,"position":4},"title":"Online Map Roundup for January 2023","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 January 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Apple Maps Apple Maps now provides parking information for 8,000 locations in the U.S. and Canada. Apple also launched Business Connect, a tool for businesses to upload their information to be used by Apple\u2019s various apps: not just Maps, though that\u2019s obvious (and something Google has been offering for quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mobile&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1785755,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/06\/mapkit-js-apple-maps-gets-an-api-for-websites\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789833,"position":5},"title":"MapKit JS: Apple Maps Gets an API for Websites","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 June 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"MapKit has been around for a few years as an API to allow iOS developers to embed Apple's maps into their apps. What seems to be new this year is MapKit JS, which enables developers to do with Apple Maps that they've been able to do for years with Google\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Web Mapping&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Web Mapping","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/web-mapping\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/apple-maps-mac-icon-150x136.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789845,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789833\/revisions\/1789845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}