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Study reveals how mobile apps track users through WiFi and Bluetooth (techxplore.com)

submitted 2 days ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Researchers from IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software Institute, and the University of Calgary, have conducted the first large-scale study—"Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android"—on how certain Android mobile applications use a device's WiFi and Bluetooth connections to track users' movements in their daily lives, thereby violating their privacy.

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is why both should be turned off when not explicitly in use.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 points 2 days ago

I'd say it would be better if there was more transparency into the APIs and sdks being used by which apps.

That, or a Linux os.

This is why I run all non FOSS apps on a work profile via shelter and keep them frozen until I need to use it.