Applications for Apple and Android devices are as ‘spies’: sharing with other platforms – such as Google, Apple and Facebook – a large amount of personal information and not always requesting permission.
It says a research at MIT and the universities of Harvard and Carnegie-Mellon survey of 110 applications available on Google Play and the App Store. The study found that applications for Google’s Android are more prone to those for Apple’s iOS platform to share personal information such as name and email address (73% of Android apps compared to 16% of IOS). The ratio is reversed on location data, shared more from iOS app (47%) than Android (33%).
As for sensitive information, such as medical researchers It found that three applications of health and fitness of 30 analyzed with third share what users search for online and the data entered in the app. Among the domains that receive the bulk of the data shared by most of the app the first place is Google, followed by Apple and Facebook. Interviewed by the BBC, the association Privacy International says that in this way our devices “betray us.”
This research is in line with another recent study, University of Pennsylvania, according to which a share users’ personal information for the benefit of third parties, without consumers being aware, are as many as 9 out of 10 websites.
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