Wonder how much information your phone could be giving away to advertisers? There's an app for that.
Researchers at Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University have developed a monitoring service that reports on how apps use your sensitive information.
When you download an app, the TaintDroid operating system uses what's called dynamic taint analysis to mark private information with an identifier so it can then be tracked.
It lets you know if and where your data has been sent as soon as you close the app.
it seems there's good reason for this: using TaintDroid, researchers found that half of 30 popular Android appsthat use location, camera and microphone data, send users' location information to remote advertisement servers.
TaintDroid is still at the prototype stage for Android phones at the moment and makers plan to make it publicly available.
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