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Your Android Apps Are Spying On You – How To Stop Them

Oct 1, 2010
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PCWorld: Your Android Apps Are Spying On You – How To Stop Them

PC World offers tips on how to prevent Android apps sending information about you to advertisers.


“Worried your Android apps are spying on you? You should be, according to a recent study that found several popular Android Apps regularly share your location and critical phone data such as your phone number with advertisers and others. Researchers from Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University randomly selected 30 out of 358 popular apps from the Android Market for this study. The computer scientists were able to track each application’s behavior using a special monitoring program called TaintDroid developed by the researchers.

Here’s a breakdown of the researcher’s findings:

-15 popular Android apps sent location information to advertisers without requiring user consent…”

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