NHL, NBA, NFL Android apps location tracking?

Posted by maurilax on May 8, 2012 11:08 am 0

I really hope I'm wrong but this has been somewhat infuriating and scary.

Recently I started getting a pop up that asking what email service ZDA should use to send an email to ZDA@pingbyzos.com

the email contained the following where xxxx are some random registration key numbers or something

REG,AN,xxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx,

The ZDA service will now register with the server. Please hit [send].

Sent by Enhanced Email for Android

When I look at the logs while this is happening i see the following when filtering for ZDA

W/ActivityManager( 215): Scheduling restart of crashed service com.yinzcam.nfl.jets/com.zoscomm.zda.agent.ZdaService in 20000ms
I/ActivityManager( 215): Start proc com.zoscomm.zda.agent.ZdaService for service com.yinzcam.nfl.jets/com.zoscomm.zda.agent.ZdaService: pid=2987 uid=10098 gids={3003, 1015, 1006, 1007}
E/ZDA ( 2987): Exception getting database row - Index 0 requested, with a size of 0
W/ZDA ( 2987): Properties.load() - error loading data
I/ZDA ( 2987): Location services are currently ON, initializing...
I/ZDA ( 2987): GetConfigurationTask: execute() called
I/ZDA ( 2987): Configuration XML parsed successfully
I/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: execute() called
W/ZDA ( 2987): Error sending SMS - no service
W/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: SMS failed to send
I/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: Email sent successfully, getting config in 10 seconds
I/ZDA ( 2987): GetConfigurationEvent fired
I/ZDA ( 2987): GetConfigurationTask: execute() called
I/ZDA ( 2987): Configuration XML parsed successfully
I/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: execute() called
W/ZDA ( 2987): Error sending SMS - no service
W/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: SMS failed to send
I/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: Email already sent, getting config in 20 seconds
I/ZDA ( 2987): GetConfigurationEvent fired
I/ZDA ( 2987): GetConfigurationTask: execute() called
I/ZDA ( 2987): Configuration XML parsed successfully
I/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: execute() called
W/ZDA ( 2987): Error sending SMS - no service
W/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: SMS failed to send
I/ZDA ( 2987): RegisterTask: Email already sent, getting config in 30 seconds

I did some research on Zoscomm . com, apparently they provide an addon location sharing service

I found this in the NFL Jets app created by YinzCam. I believe it exists in all of their apps for NHL NFL NBA.

If you look at these apps you will notice a signifigant amount of permissions are needed.

I just wanted to get this information out there as it was fairly difficult to track down the issue I was having.