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Smartphone apps sending your data to India, China

article published on 11 March, 2012

Apps send out your phone numbers, e-mail addresses, GPS coordinates and more. An app collecting data on your phone should only need to do so if its critical to functionality, or at least that's what conventional wisdom would suggest. In reality, some smartphone apps send data to remote servers that has nothing to do with how the app operates in the first place. A report in the UK's ... [ read the full article ]

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What Google/Apple needs to do is grant more finely grained access controls for phone apps. The end user (customer?) should be able to control what data an app is allowed to access, and what the app is allowed to do with it.
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