Saturday, May 16, 2015

Be careful! Free application in android selling user data

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Google Android (special/IBTimes)


Free apps in Android turns are found siphoning of personal data users to be submitted to the advertiser. Thus the results of a study conducted recently.



As detikINET quotes by Cellular News, on Saturday (05/16/2015), found a lot of free applications on Android are actually paid for by advertisers. The yield of the funding was handed over personal data to advertisers where the user is aware of it entirely.

This research was carried out on around 20 thousand free applications on Google's Play Store, in which user data can be sent automatically by the application. Most of the data is sent to multiple service advertising where Google's digital advertising application at the most dominating.

While about 10% of the applications send data to approximately 500 service and an application send to more than 2 thousand sites. There is also a third of the free application to embed tracking which sites customers while browsing on the internet.
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