Report: 50 Percent of Android Apps Sending Owners' Data To Advertisers?
A new look into how Android apps handle the data they access on smartphones may make you stop and think before downloading the latest, greateast app. In a random study of popular Android apps, researchers found two-thirds of the apps were using owners’ data in ambiguous ways, including 50 percent that were sending owners’ data to third-party advertisers without requiring user consent. Have Android apps taken the system’s highly-touted open source status too far?
Researchers from Intel Labs, Duke University and Pennsylvania State University discovered the security breaches using TaintDroid,
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