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Zang J, Dummit K, Graves J, Lisker P, Sweeney L. Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps. Technology Science. 2015103001. October 30, 2015. http://techscience.org/a/2015103001 Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps Jinyan Zang, Krysta Dummit, James Graves, Paul Lisker, and Latanya Sweeney Highlights • We tested 110 popular, free Android and iOS apps to look for apps that shared personal, behavioral, and location data with third parties • 73% of Android apps shared personal information such as email address with third parties, and 47% of iOS apps shared geo-coordinates and other location data with third parties • 93% of Android apps tested connected to a mysterious domain, safemovedm.com, likely due to a background process of the Android phone • We show that a significant proportion of apps share data from user inputs such as personal information or search terms with third parties without Android or iOS requiring a notification to the user 1 Zang J, Dummit K, Graves J, Lisker P, Sweeney L. Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps. Technology Science. 2015103001. October 30, 2015. http://techscience.org/a/2015103001 Sharing of sensitive data by Android apps (left) to domains (right) 2 Zang J, Dummit K, Graves J, Lisker P, Sweeney L. Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps.
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