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    DoJ pushes Google and Apple to ID 10,000 users of a gun scope app

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    Christine Fisher
    Christine Fisher
    09.06.2019

    The US government has reportedly ordered Apple and Google to hand over the names, phone numbers and IP addresses of at least 10,000 users of a gun scope app. The data request is part of an investigation into weapons export violations, but it has privacy experts understandably concerned. According to Forbes, this is the first known case of US investigators demanding personal data from users of a single app from Apple and Google.