IDG Contributor Network: How iOS, Android apps share your data without notifications
The vast majority of tested Android apps share users' personal information like email addresses with third parties "behind-the-scenes," a report has uncovered. Many apps aren't required by the OS to notify users of the data being shared, the study finds. Out of 110 tested Android and iOS apps, 93% of the Android apps connected surreptitiously to a strange domain called safemovedm.com, for example. It's probably part of a background process, surmises the authors of a report published at the end of October on Harvard's open forum Journal of Technology Science (JOTS) website.The pillaging The study found that 73% of Android apps shared Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and that "47% of iOS apps shared geo-coordinates and other location data with third parties."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here