"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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