US military bought 'granular movement data' from third parties

The U.S. military "is buying the granular movement data of people around the world" through the location services in a number of popular apps, Vice reports. Apps including a Quran app with 98 million downloads around the world and popular classified listing app Craigslist were among those the military is harvesting data from. The publication "uncovered two separate, parallel data streams" the U.S. uses, one of which uses a company called Babel Street's "Locate X" product and another company, X-Mode, which obtains app’s location data and sells it to third parties.