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[…] Allowing access to location services may also permit sharing of location information with third parties. To check the location permissions allowed for apps on an iPhone or Android, follow the below steps. iPhone Navigate to “Settings,” then “Privacy & Security,” and then “Location Services.” Search for each app downloaded on your phone Open each […]

[…] to location services may also permit the sharing of location information with third-parties.  To check the location permissions allowed to social media sites on an iPhone or Android, follow the below steps. iPhone Navigate to “Settings,” then “Privacy,” and then “Location Services” Search for each social media service downloaded on your phone Open each […]

[…] Map. You can also choose to deny individual users from viewing your location. To check the location permissions allowed to social media sites on an iPhone or Android, follow the below steps. iPhone Navigate to “Settings,” then “Privacy,” and then “Location Services” Search for each social media service downloaded on your phone Open each […]

[…] Center. FPF also selected a paper for the Student Paper Award, A Fait Accompli? An Empirical Study into the Absence of Consent to Third Party Tracking in Android Apps by Konrad Kollnig and Reuben Binns, University of Oxford; Pierre Dewitte, KU Leuven; Max van Kleek, Ge Wang, Daniel Omeiza, Helena Webb, and Nigel Shadbolt, […]

[…] by others. If they could, it would be a major risk for all kinds of surveillance. Finally, there is the limitation of interoperability – Bluetooth signals from Android and Apple phones could not easily be interpreted by each other. Another current interoperability problem that the Google-Apple API will solve for is that existing exposure […]

[…] located because they direct calls to phones through local cell towers, which may be enhanced with GPS location data.  Operating Systems. Providers of mobile operating systems — Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) — may know where devices are located as a result of providing services, improving functionality, or enabling opt-in location features. In addition, […]

[…] “free” counterparts, and documenting consumer expectations about the relative behaviors of each. We first present an empirical study that documents and compares the privacy behaviors of 5,877 Android apps that are offered both as free and paid versions. The sophisticated analysis tool we employed, AppCensus, allowed us to detect exactly which sensitive user data […]

[…] privacy-focused technical modifications. Several of these updates were first announced at Apple’s June 2018 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which we discussed (along with major updates to Google’s Android P) earlier this summer, and have now been released to the public. Below, we provide round-ups of privacy updates in iOS 12, macOS 10.14 (Mojave), and […]

[…] mobile platforms in safeguarding user data. Apple emphasized privacy in its Worldwide Developers Conference (June 4-8, 2018), highlighting several privacy-related updates to the upcoming macOS and iOS 12. Google also made privacy a focus of their newest mobile operating system, Android P, with several key software updates that will restrict app developers’ access to data.

[…] UC Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute, and University of British Columbia, have demonstrated a way to efficiently analyze network traffic for mobile privacy implications in 80,000 Android apps in the Google Play store. Online Advertising (Ad Tech): I never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking by Steven Englehardt (Princeton), Jeffrey […]