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Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers

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Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers

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A study involving IMDEA Networks reveals how mobile apps track users through WiFi and Bluetooth - IMDEA Networks

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Researchers from IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software Institute, and the University of Calgary, have conducted the first large-scale study — “Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android” — on how certain Android mobile applications use a device’s WiFi and Bluetooth connections to...

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Who needs tin foil hats when we all have highly addictive tracking devices mentally glued to our hands…

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