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"GM failed to clearly disclose that it collected consumers' precise geolocation and driving behavior data and sold it to third parties, including consumer reporting agencies, without consumers' consent. [...] 'GM monitored and sold people's precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,' said FTC Chair Lina M. Khan."

(the report page cited at publication has moved; the January 2020 report found the ten apps tested transmitting data to at least 135 different third parties engaged in advertising or behavioural profiling; report PDF unreachable as of 2026-08-13).

(live URL now 404s; excerpt preserved from a July 2026 Wayback Machine snapshot): "The other stream is through a company called X-Mode, which obtains location data directly from apps, then sells that data to contractors, and by extension, the military." Also: "The apps sending data to X-Mode include Muslim Pro ... over 98 million in total across other platforms including iOS," and "Another app that sent data to X-Mode was Muslim Mingle, a dating app that has been downloaded more than 100,000 times."

"The data was sourced from 107 apps, with more than 50,000 points of location data from more than 20,000 unique advertising IDs collected from 140 countries during that time."

"The NYPD's suspicionless surveillance program has swept up Muslim communities throughout New York City, as well as every mosque within 100 miles of New York, and extended to Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey, and more." And: "The NYPD's Demographics Unit (now the Zone Assessment Unit) has mapped neighborhoods predominantly occupied by 28 so-called 'ancestries of interest'—i.e., national origin associated with Muslim populations."

"during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender, which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants — and their homes — for possible air strikes." Also: "Additional automated systems, including one called 'Where's Daddy?' also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family's residences." And: "for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians."

the tools "use faulty data and inexact approximations to inform military actions" and "risk Israeli forces violating international humanitarian law, in particular the laws of war concerning distinction between military targets and civilians."

(Sumayyah Waheed, Sept. 6, 2023): "When you download something as mundane as a mobile prayer app, the last thing you'd expect is to be swept up in a U.S. military mass surveillance program. But that's exactly what happened to 98 million people..." And: "A coalition of civil liberties organizations from all walks of life—including Muslim Advocates—are advocating for comprehensive reform to warrantless surveillance laws, including closing the data broker loophole."