Apple And Google Clamp Down On X-Mode, A Location-tracking Data Broker

Apple and Google have reportedly ordered app developers to sever ties with X-Mode Social Inc., a data broker that specializes in location tracking. As the Wall Avenue Journal studies, the company has supplied data to US authorities contractors engaged on national safety and pandemic-related points. X-Mode has different purchasers, but its ties to the political world have pressured Apple and Google into action. Android app builders had been given seven days to take away X-Mode’s SDK, although some may apply for an extension of as much as 30 days. Apple, meanwhile, gave its personal group two weeks to make the…