Over 800 different Android apps that have been downloaded millions of times from Google Play Store found to be infected with malicious ad library that silently
collects sensitive user data...
Not exact matches
Again, Facebook makes the majority of its revenue from
collecting user data to sell targeted ads, a nugget that may give companies pause before deciding to share
sensitive documents on the platform.
Meetic and Attractive World have both been fined by French authorities for not receiving express consent from
users before
collecting certain
sensitive data.
This «express consent» was to be in the form of a specific checkbox
users must click to confirm they were happy for the dating site to
collect their
sensitive data.
That feature allows
users to install apps while preventing the app from
collecting sensitive data like the
user's location or address book.
This software was
collecting sensitive personal information from
users including location
data, text messages, and call logs, and sending it to servers in China.