Re: Data privacy in app-verse challenging: study

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Data privacy in app-verse challenging: study
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-privacy-app-verse.html
> 
> 
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>> The research, focusing on Android applications and not Apple's iOS
>> apps, which are on a more tightly guarded system, said a relatively
>> small number of apps dominate the ecosystem.
>>
>> It found 47 percent of all apps available in the Google Play Store
>> had been installed fewer than 500 times, while 11 apps were
>> downloaded more than 500 million times.
>>
>> The research underscored growing privacy concerns about smartphone
>> applications and their ability to glean data from users.
>>
>> A separate study last month by university researchers found 73
>> percent of Android apps shared personal information such as email
>> addresses with third parties, and 47 percent of iOS apps shared
>> location data with third parties.
>>
>> Apple has in some cases removed applications that share data with
>> third parties without user permission.
>>
>> But the researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
>> Harvard and Carnegie Mellon University said much of the sharing of
>> data was not disclosed.
>>
>> "Given the popularity of apps on smartphones, consumers worry about
>> how much personal information apps share," they wrote in the Journal
>> of Technology Science.
>>
>> The Pew research found the average application asks for five
>> permissions, with the most popular one simply accessing the
>> connectivity of the smartphone.
>>
>> The majority of the permissions related to allowing apps to access
>> hardware functions of the device such as controlling the vibration
>> function, while 70 allowed apps to access some kind of personal
>> information.
>>
 
What do you call a smartphone owner with lots of apps?

An identity theft victem.
 

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Jim Pennino

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