Is Your Data Safe? New Study Finds Android Apps Share Data Without Permission

Anew study published this week by researchers at Virginia Tech found thousands of popular Android apps are capable of colluding with one another to share user data and information without permission.
The study, which was conducted by professors from the Department of Computer Science in Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering, analyzed 100,206 apps from the Google Play Store and found 23,495 pairs of apps that communicated with one another to collect and share user data.