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Virginia Tech Researchers Discover Web Of Collusion Between Smartphone Apps

Posted on April 6, 2017 by pogowasright.org

Jasper Hamill reports:

The apps on your phone are secretly working together to spy on your life in minute detail, researchers have warned.

Experts from Virginia Tech University analysed more than 100,000 pieces of Android software and found “thousands of pairs of apps” which talk to each other to share private information.

Read more on Technocracy.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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