Why location data is one of the most coveted details apps collect about you

A new study from Carnegie Mellon reveals that smartphone applications collect location-related data a lot more than you think. And as Wired reports, and it’s not always clear what happens with that data and whether it’s safely used by the parties it’s shared with. FROM EARLIER: Brilliant free iPhone app bends reality to let you try on the Apple Watch right now The university’s Institute for Software Research tracked 23 Android users for three weeks in this study and asked them to behave differently when it comes to apps each week. In the first week, they were asked to use apps as they’d normally do. In the second week an App Ops app was installed to monitor the data those



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