Yet another Android scare shows how little Google protects your privacy
Alfred Ng for Cnet:
Researchers from the International Computer Science Institute found up to 1,325 Android apps that were gathering data from devices even after people explicitly denied them permission. Serge Egelman, director of usable security and privacy research at the ICSI, presented the study in late June at the Federal Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon.
“Fundamentally, consumers have very few tools and cues that they can use to reasonably control their privacy and make decis
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