Muslim prayer application faces allegation of sharing data to US army
Muslim prayer application faces allegation of sharing data to US army
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'Muslim Pro' application users has been accused of selling data to the army of the United States. The prayer application is based on France. Former 95 million subscribers to the "Muslim Pro" app around the world, filed a complaint on Monday after media reports accused the group of having shared its data with companies connected to the US army. 

The company is facing the lawsuit for the data protection offences, abuse of trust, endangering other people's lives and conspiracy to commit murder has been revealed by France's RTL radio. The Vice media group has made a revelation last week about how the US army bought users' geolocation data from a string of apps around the world. The list included the Muslim Pro app which has a geolocation option that enables users to determine the hour of prayer and the direction of Mecca. 

The Muslim Pro company allegedly sold the user data to a company called X-Mode, from which the sub-contractors bought and by extension to the army, said Vice. The data would then be used by the US Special Forces on overseas missions, the report said, guessing that they could be used for the extra-judicial executions of terror suspects by means of drone strikes. However, the prayer application said it was ending all sharing of its data with other companies. The French nationality founder based in Singapore said it has launched an internal investigation.

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