NEW: Press «ACCEPT» to make your location data available for sale. Two lawyers tell NRK that the consent @huq_industries shared with the Danish Data Protection Authority is illegal under the #GDPR.
Story in Norwegian: nrkbeta.no/2021/10/07/try…
Story in Norwegian: nrkbeta.no/2021/10/07/try…
“I would never advice my client to use such a solution,” says one of the lawyers about the consent.
Huq has not responded to our repeated requests for comment.
Huq has not responded to our repeated requests for comment.
Huq Industries is under investigation by the Danish DPA following a media report. Danish TV2 got access to the location data of from more than 60.000 phones.
We can now share that Huq on an earlier occasion intended to sell location data to NRK. We ended up buying data from another data broker (Tamoco) that sold us data from 140.000 phones. Tamoco is still under investigation by the UK Data Protection Authority (@ICOnews).
For those interested, this is how the data looks like on a map. This is from 11 apps that shared location data with Huq Industries (one color per app) shown on a map of parts of Oslo.
I got the data throug a subject access request:
I got the data throug a subject access request:
The Markup has a nice summary of the industry as a whole. They have found that there is at least 47 companies within the location data industry: themarkup.org/privacy/2021/0…
You can check at Privacy Exodus if you have an app that cooperate with Huq Industries. The app scanner estimates that at least 103 apps have an SDK signature that belong to the company. exodus-privacy.eu.org
Danish TV2 also have a list of 58 apps: nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2021-0…
Thanks to Esther (@U039b) and Sean (@seanodiggity) for help with understanding mobile SDKs and getting more information about the app partners. Exodus Privacy and Pithus (beta.pithus.org) are also super helpful tools.
Work in the industry or have other tips? DMs open and Signal is in my bio.
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