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Millionendeal mit Überwachungsfirma in Österreich
Austria's government has extended a license for Webloc, a surveillance software by US firm Penlink that tracks mobile phone locations of up to 500 million devices worldwide, raising serious GDPR compliance concerns. The tool enables authorities to create movement profiles from advertising data, potentially violating data protection laws and affecting all smartphone users with ad-supported apps.
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Austria's government has extended a license for Webloc, a surveillance software by US firm Penlink that tracks mobile phone locations of up to 500 million devices worldwide, raising serious GDPR compliance concerns. The tool enables authorities to create movement profiles from advertising data, potentially violating data protection laws and affecting all smartphone users with ad-supported apps.
Tags
surveillance · data-privacy · austria · webloc · location-tracking · dsgvo · adint
Key entities
Webloc (technology, 0.95) · Penlink (organization, 0.95) · Citizen Lab (organization, 0.9) · University of Toronto (organization, 0.9) · Gerhard Karner (person, 0.85) · Sebastian Meineck (person, 0.85) · Austria (location, 0.95) · Germany (location, 0.85) · Hungary (location, 0.8) · ICE (organization, 0.85) · DSGVO (concept, 0.95) · ADINT (concept, 0.9) · netzpolitik.org (organization, 0.9) · Der Standard (organization, 0.85)
Classification
analysis · language de · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 30 Jun 2026