Prison Planet.com » Data-sharing by free apps is ‘out of control’ with almost 90% of free apps on Google Play sharing your details with companies, Oxford University study finds

Daily Mail
October 25, 2018

The harvesting and sharing of data by mobile phone apps is out of control, researchers have warned.

They found that almost 90 per cent of free apps on the Google Play store shared data with Google parent company Alphabet.

More than 40 per cent could transfer information about users to businesses ultimately owned by Facebook.

The Oxford researchers looked at almost a million apps on the UK and US Google Play stores.

They found most contained ‘third-party tracking’, especially news apps and those targeted at children.

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This article was posted: Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 6:43 am






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