Dangerous apps - In the web of data brokers

What many smartphone users know: the apps on their phones collect detailed location data. What few people know: the information often ends up with a global network of data brokers and advertising companies.

The data in question reveals where people live and work - up to and including information about visits to brothels or stays in psychiatric clinics. This film shows how easily unsuspecting users can become targets for stalkers, criminals or secret services. It highlights how seemingly harmless apps can become a security risk - even for soldiers at war, or governments.

This documentary is based on one of the largest investigations of its kind to date: a team of journalists analyzed around ten billion pieces of location data. Their search takes them halfway around the world: to an Egyptian journalist in exile in Berlin who’s being threatened. To Brussels, where high-ranking EU Commission employees are affected.

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