20101021 Smartphones sind freigiebig mit den Daten
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21.10.2010: Smartphone-Nutzer geben unwissentlich personenbezogener Daten weg
Half of more than two-dozen popular Android apps studied by researchers and available for download to smartphones secretly transmit the geographic location of users, i.e. the approximate physical location of a consumer with their device, to remote servers controlled by advertisers, according to new findings released Sept. 29.
Scientists and students at Penn State University, Duke University and Intel Labs conducted the study by creating a tool called TaintDroid that analyzes how downloaded apps are capturing private information from cell phones and releasing it to third parties.
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