9% free Android popular apps on Google Play talk behind your back: Study

Almost 9 per cent of popular apps downloaded from Google Play interact with websites that could compromise users’ security and privacy, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) conducted a large-scale analysis of URLs embedded in 13,500 free Android apps downloaded from Google Play, in one of the first studies to analyse behind-the-scenes behaviours of good applications.
The apps which were tested were created by reputable developers and downlo