Nothing fishy at all about the FBI building a [checks notes] ...exercise app
Staying fit is part of their job, so it's not completely out of nowhere.
So is tracking their agents and their marks. It's a double whammy.
Honestly I'm surprised there aren't more instances of apps like this, it makes sense across a lot of problem spaces. Most users are already happy to trade their data for free stuff, why not make a competive app to get in on that data for LEO purposes? Similarly, having high quality apps produced domestically cuts down on the harvesting abilities of foreign government extensions like Tencent if you can compete across enough spaces. Most users could even stand to benefit since, in this instance, there's an incentive to focus on quality or else no one will swap over. I've got nothing against having my data harvested willingly, at that point it's just another financial instrument to me. The hardcore privacy crowd loses but isolation is the price of absolutism, the movement has had plenty of time to pivot in persuit of the mainstream.
Why can’t we have laws against this sort of thing? The entire tech economy is built out of pretending that unwary users have accepted some ridiculous TOS that is little more than a hidden notification of policy. The fact that it tells you “you agree to...” is like walking into a lawyers office, not reading a tos on the wall, and them telling you that you have agreed to forfeit your case against their client
The government serves itself first and the people second or third.
The moment they added GPS to the cell phone and would not connect or continue service on phones without, this should of been seen as being tracked in one way or another. Seriously can't believe no one saw that