Study: 75 percent of Android applications "watch"
A recent study said that three-quarters of Android applications monitored by third-party tracking users, after following up hundreds of applications.
The study, conducted by the French research organization "Xodos Preface" and the laboratory of privacy at Yale University of America, that there are different technologies installed within applications that collect personal information about users, in order to target ads.
Android OS applications such as Tinder, Uber, Twitter, Skype and SpotPay are using anonymous security monitoring software for system users at the time of application installation.
The study noted that about 25 of the 44 software programs known by the French research organization were found among the 300 applications analyzed.
The researchers pointed out that there are applications that are seen as clean and free of tracking software, but they simply contain such software, which may yet be known to the security community and privacy.
Many common applications include Google-owned CrashLitex, which primarily analyzes and tracks app crash reports, and provides users with the ability to recognize and what they do.
According to the study, other less widely used tracking software could go much further, quoting the French tracking provider FidZup, which provides technology capable of detecting the presence of mobile phones and thus the location of their owners using ultrasound tones, but it did not It has been used since its success in tracking users through simple Wi-Fi networks.
Sky News
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