Most Apps Share Your Data With Google, Facebook: Study
More than 70 per cent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party companies like Google and Facebook, a new study has warned.
When people install a new smartphone app, it asks for the users permission before accessing personal information.
Some of the information these apps collect are necessary for them to work properly.
However, once an app has permission to collect that information, it can share your data with anyone the developer wants to letting third-party companies track where you are, how fast you are moving and what you are doing, researchers said.
Researchers from the IMDEA Networks Institute in Spain wanted to know how much data could potentially be collected without users knowledge, and to give users more control over their data.
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