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[…] by Smart TVs, we recently had the opportunity to informally review the policies and user interfaces of 2017 models from three leading manufacturers: Sony (which uses the Android TV interface), LG, and Samsung. We aimed to learn more about the privacy and security aspects of leading Smart TVs. Overall, Smart TV data practices vary […]

[…] and that it causes the OS to occasionally generate notifications to users. Operating Systems Play a Key Role in Shaping Expectations Understanding the details of iOS and Android upgrades is important not only because of their direct effect on consumer privacy, but because platforms can have a powerful effect on user expectations—both in creating […]

[…] content and services. Unlike traditional web browsing, apps do not support cookies, and their standards and permissions are enforced by the operating systems (Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android). This framework raises different privacy concerns, as developers are in some ways more limited in their possibilities for data collection, but in other ways able to […]

[…] understand what Uber modified and why. For context, it is important to understand how smartphone location permissions work. Until 2014, on the two major smartphone platforms—iOS and Android—granting the location permission to an app meant that app had access to that user’s location at all times, whether or not the app was open. In […]

[…] based on the user’s precise location, as well as the patterns of locations of where the user had been over the previous two months. In iOS and Android phones, the operating system requires that an app has to ask your permission before it shares your location via Location Services, so consumers (and app developers) […]

Behind the scenes in the escalating war between ad-blocking consumers and advertisers and ad-supported publishers, the use of one privacy tool has decreased. Mobile marketing platform firm Tune reports that, as the number of ad-blocker downloads rises, the limit-ad-tracking feature available in iOS and Android devices has actually dropped.

[…] industry opt-out program need to download a special app to opt-out of app related ad targeting. Or consumers can use the”Limit Ad Tracking” settings that iOS and Android provide, but not every ad network cooperates.  And the Do Not Track option offered by web browsers?  Only about a dozen or so companies respect that […]

Android M and Privacy: Giving Users Control over App Permissions Android M promises to deliver several new user-control features built to advance transparency, choice, and predictability. The new App Permissions system allows users to select permissions specific to each app and device feature. The granular system requires apps to request user permissions individually […]

[…] developing approaches to extracting useful information from natural-language privacy policies and displaying that information in useful ways for users. Privacy Grade: Researchers have assigned privacy grades to Android apps based on some techniques developed to analyze their privacy-related behaviors. The privacy model built by the researchers measures the gap between people’s expectations of an […]

[…] install other software like Linux,” he explained. “That’s an important value that’s given rise to a tremendous amount of innovation.” Comparing Apple’s mobile device business model to Android’s, which is largely open-source, Sanchez explained that the government’s position effectively wages a war on open-computing. “It’s not possible to force people to keep a backdoor […]