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Study shows limited control over privacy breaches by pre-installed Android apps

Posted on March 25, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Paul Day and Paresh Day report:

An independent study lead by an academic group in Spain has shown that what personal information can be collected by pre-installed programs on new Android mobile devices is expansive and faces little oversight.

The investigation by the public Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Networks Institute and Stony Brook University looked at apps pre-installed on Android devices from 2,748 users, spanning 1,742 unique devices from 214 vendors across 130 countries.

Read more on Reuters.

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