Friday, May 2, 2025

A Different Way Smart Phone Apps Can Track You

"Your smartphone apps are tracking you"--Behind the Black. We've probably all had the experience of talking about some product or issue with someone, only to suddenly have advertisements start popping up about that very thing. But this goes a bit beyond that. From the article:

Researchers have now found that though there is no evidence that big software companies like Facebook and Google are tracking your smartphone conversations, the data instead shows that the many apps you routinely install on your phone are spying on you quite extensively by periodically taking screenshots of things you look at and sending those images to third parties. 

The article the author cites notes: "Out of over 17,000 Android apps examined, more than 9,000 had potential permissions to take screenshots," and a number of those were caught doing exactly that.

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