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University Researchers Show How Widely Mobile Apps Share Users’ Personal Information

A joint study from MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Harvard examined mobile apps. Nearly three-quarters of Android apps and close to half of iOS apps are inappropriately sharing users’ personal data. The study shows an apparent lack of accountability in how data moves from one organization to another. Apple has been making its approach to privacy a centerpiece of its strategy earlier this year. The problem may be one of mobile OS providers coaching developers on the boundaries for data sharing. It’s not as though theyre unaware of the potential fallout.”]

Source: https://securityintelligence.com/news/university-researchers-show-how-widely-mobile-apps-share-users-personal-information/

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