(Reuters) - Some advertising networks have been secretly collecting app users personal details over the past year and now have access to millions of smartphones globally, U.S.-based mobile security firm...
Over 80 million apps have been downloaded which carry a form of invasive ads - used by 5 percent of all free apps on Google's Android platform - which can take data from phones or install software without users' knowledge.
Some more aggressive networks collect users' email addresses or phone numbers without permission, while others install icons to home screens, track users whereabouts or push ads to notification bar.
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Wouldn't it be time that Education should start about to teach persons about the new media, ICT and Social-Media on how to use them, by providing ALSO the students study cases and the laws what is allowed and what not!???
Check also:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Prison
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet?tag=Jail...