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Researchers expose ‘open secret’ of clandestine trackers in popular Android apps

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Nov
2017

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Yale University’s Privacy Lab is calling on Google and Android app developers to increase transparency into privacy and security practices related to dozens of trackers built into popular Google Play apps such as Uber, Tinder, Skype, Twitter, Spotify, and Snapchat.

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