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Report: ‘Hundreds’ of Android Apps Failed to Disclose Third-Party Tracking
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2018 Sep 6, 5:44pm 868 views 3 comments
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FortWayne
2018 Sep 7, 8:50am
FortWayne
2018 Sep 7, 8:50am
Liberal tech steals personal info... who would have thought? Shocked!!!
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HeadSet
2018 Sep 7, 8:55am
HeadSet
2018 Sep 7, 8:55am
“Hundreds” of apps for Google’s Android platform failed to disclose third-party analytics and advertising services within them, which collected personal user information, according to a report.
Apple did the same by allowing Uber to collect such data, even when the Uber app was not being used.
http://fortune.com/2017/10/06/apple-uber-secret-entitlement/
Apple did the same by allowing Uber to collect such data, even when the Uber app was not being used.
http://fortune.com/2017/10/06/apple-uber-secret-entitlement/
The CBC reported on Thursday. “If you give a weather app access to your location for a more accurate forecast, for example, a third-party advertising service embedded in the app could access it, too.”
Professor Lisa Austin, who was one of the co-authors of the study, called the results “eye-opening,” and declared, “This is one of the ways in which you’re getting tracked through your use of apps.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/06/report-hundreds-of-android-apps-failed-to-disclose-third-party-tracking/