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Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps
- dmckeon 11y agoThe original long title has been truncated here - it was: Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps From the survey summary: [researchers] tested 110 popular, free Android and iOS apps to look for apps that shared personal, behavioral, and location data with third parties ... [researchers] show that a significant proportion of apps share data from user inputs such as personal information or search terms with third parties without Android or iOS requiring a notification to the user