Security News > 2020 > March > Android apps are snooping on your installed software
2020-03-27 13:25
Roid apps are snooping on other software on your device - and that could tell shady advertising companies more about you than you'd like.
The researchers studied 14,342 free Android apps in the Google Play Store, along with 7,886 open-source Android apps.
4,214 commercial apps used these, compared to just 228 of open-source apps.
The most popular types of commercial app using this technique were games at 73%. Most of the commercial apps snooping on other installed software didn't do it from within their own code.
You'd think Google would be wise to apps that like to sniff around their users' installed software.
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