{"id":235,"date":"2011-01-17T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodwin.drexel.edu\/isensor\/drho\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-01-17T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T20:45:20","slug":"iphone-and-android-apps-are-breaching-the-privacy-of-smartphone-users-but-nobody-is-saying-where-your-personal-data-is-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"iPhone and Android apps are breaching the privacy of smartphone users (but nobody is saying where your personal data is going)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=235\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Any time Angry Birds or Yelp is opened on a smartphone, information is being sent to marketers &#8212; and app developers aren&#8217;t required to reveal it. Apps running on the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry platforms often collect personal information to be resold to marketing companies and initiatives such as Google&#8217;s AdMob. These apps and others work in conjunction with in-phone GPS chips to give marketers detailed information on smartphone users&#8217; locations, gender, ages and, in some cases, personal contacts and use of other apps.<\/p>\n<p>Marketers reselling personal information from smartphone apps are working with a massive market of often-unaware users. For instance, as of December 2010, an average of 300,000 Android phones were activated daily.<\/p>\n<p>Although exact figures are not available, advertising and marketing resales have become one of the largest app revenue streams for developers, with a steady stream of financial incentives existing to encourage the sale of information.<\/p>\n<p>From the Wall Street Journal Online: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any time Angry Birds or Yelp is opened on a smartphone, information is being sent to marketers &#8212; and app developers aren&#8217;t required to reveal it. Apps running on the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry platforms often collect personal information to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-latest-news-ideas-problems-strategies-and-tactics-in-securing-cyberspace-and-virtual-organizations-discussed-by-experts-in-industries-as-well-as-academia","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}