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  "en": "Joseph Cox, 'How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps', Motherboard (Vice), 16 November 2020"
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  "ar": "تحقيق جوزيف كوكس في مجلة مذربورد ⁦(فايس)⁩ في 16 نوفمبر 2020: رصد تطبيق مسلم برو يرسل بيانات الموقع إلى شركة إكس-مود التي تبيع البيانات لمتعاقدين مع الجيش الأمريكي، وأن التطبيق أعلن بعد النشر وقف مشاركة البيانات معها.",
  "en": "Joseph Cox's investigation in Motherboard (Vice), 16 November 2020: it observed the Muslim Pro app sending location data to the broker X-Mode, which sold data to US military contractors, and records that after publication Muslim Pro said it would stop sharing data with X-Mode.",
  "ur": "مدر بورڈ ⁦(وائس)⁩ میں جوزف کوکس کی 16 نومبر 2020 کی تحقیق: مسلم پرو ایپ کو مقام کا ڈیٹا ایکس موڈ نامی کمپنی کو بھیجتے پایا گیا جو امریکی فوج کے ٹھیکیداروں کو ڈیٹا بیچتی تھی، اور اشاعت کے بعد مسلم پرو نے ایکس موڈ سے ڈیٹا شیئر کرنا بند کرنے کا اعلان کیا۔"
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  "kind": "secondary",
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  "title": "How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Cox",
    "given": "Joseph"
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  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2020,
     11,
     16
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  "publisher": "Motherboard (Vice)",
  "URL": "https://www.vice.com/en/article/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Investigative report by a named technology journalist, with its method stated (network analysis of the Android and iOS apps, public procurement records, interviews). Cited for what the report observed and for Muslim Pro's post-publication statement as the report gives it; it says Motherboard knew of no specific operation using such data. Read in Chrome on 6 November 2026.",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)"
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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