Logan Mook #5

7 in 10 smartphone apps share your data with third-party services

The research that we and our colleagues are doing identifies and explores a significant threat that most people miss: More than 70 percent of smartphone apps are reporting personal data to third-party tracking companies like Google Analytics, the Facebook Graph API. 

Can you believe this? Big brother? 1984? What the heck???? This is insane. 70 percent share data? That's disgusting. We are more than wallets holding money to be exploited and yet we are not treated like it. This shouldn't be legal, and yet, privacy laws allow it. We should at least be  able to know when this happens, yet we are not. Not ok