Yale University’s Privacy Lab using research to call on developers and Google ‘for increased transparency into privacy and security practice’More than three in four Android apps contain at least one third-party “tracker”,according to a modern analysis of hundreds of apps.
The study by French research organisation Exodus Privacy and Yale University’s Privacy Lab analysed the mobile apps for the signatures of 25 known trackers, which exhaust various techniques to glean personal information about users to better target them for advertisements and services.
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Source: guardian.co.uk