New smartphone app can manage your privacy preferences

Researchers are developing a personalised privacy assistant app that can simplify the task of setting permissions for your smartphone applications.
That is a job that requires well over a hundred decisions, an unmanageable number for the typical user, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the US said.
The privacy assistant can learn the user’s preferences and quickly recommend the most appropriate settings, such as with which app to share the user’s location, or contac