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minus-squarefosholinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoRead this: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/mobile-privacy-over-7-out-of-10-apps-collect-more-data-than-needed It’s all about user-permissions, which users are granting. It is already known what data apps are collecting. Can you guess what the authors of the study didn’t have in order to determine what the apps are doing? The source code.
Read this: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/mobile-privacy-over-7-out-of-10-apps-collect-more-data-than-needed
It’s all about user-permissions, which users are granting. It is already known what data apps are collecting. Can you guess what the authors of the study didn’t have in order to determine what the apps are doing? The source code.