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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Data privacy in app-verse challenging: study |
| Date | 2015-11-10 18:28 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mjp9hc-e5e.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
| References | <i7-dnaClg7Bqjt_LnZ2dnUU7-LOdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > Data privacy in app-verse challenging: study >> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-privacy-app-verse.html > > > >> 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. -- Jim Pennino
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Data privacy in app-verse challenging: study Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 09:57 -0600 Re: Data privacy in app-verse challenging: study jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-10 18:28 +0000
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