"HALF THE FREE APPS ARE SENDING OUT PRIVATE INFORMATION" this is not an
alarmist point of view, this is documented! read on
Everyone loves to bash iPhone and the fact that it is not open source. That debate
ended a long time ago but some still do not see the warning signs. Open source is
only as good as the app you buy. And if it is free it is even more scary.
I know every app is not giving out my personal info due to regs and the app approval process of the EVIL APPLE on my iPhone...But this scares me as lots of people in my
family have Droids.
"The prototype code was tested against 30 randomly selected, popular Android apps that use location, camera, or microphone data. The software flagged 105 instances in which these applications transmitted tainted data. The researchers concluded that 37 of those instances – just over one-third -- were legitimate. Fifteen of the apps reported users' locations to remote advertising servers. Seven collected the device ID and, sometimes, the phone number and the phone’s SIM. In all, two thirds of the applications in our study used sensitive data suspiciously," the paper concludes."
http://www.networkworld.com/news/201...y.html?hpg1=bn
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