Your kids’ apps are spying on them--Apple and Google just look the other way.

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by hawki, Jun 9, 2022.

  1. hawki

    hawki Registered Member

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    "Your kids’ apps are spying on them--Apple and Google just look the other way.

    More than two-thirds of the 1,000 most popular iPhone apps likely to be used by children collect and send their personal information out to the advertising industry, according to a major new study shared with me by fraud and compliance software company Pixalate. On Android, 79 percent of popular kids apps do the same..."

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/09/apps-kids-privacy/
     
  2. Rasheed187

    Rasheed187 Registered Member

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    What else is new? Privacy on smartphones is a freaking joke.
     
  3. Uitlander

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    Considering Apple and Google are some of the biggest and most virulent spies in the lot...their looking "the other way" is just professional courtesy. Who says there is no honor among thieves?

    Recall the modern adage 'If something is free you are the product'? Thanks to the pioneering work of Billie Gates and M$, this has been taken a step further, to where it doesn't have to be free...and you are still the product. Here's an astute summation:

    https://www.quora.com/Who-originall...ot-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product

    Android apps are the talk of the town, but seems like none want to point a finger at the phone themselves:

    https://www.forensicfocus.com/articles/who-why-what-android-spying/
    https://tekdeeps.com/android-phones-are-constantly-spying-on-users/

    As for Apple, it depends on how much you want to trust what they are saying today, considering the lies they told yesterday:
    THEN:
    https://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-response-iphone-spying,news-27752.html
    NOW:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...night-do-you-know-who-your-iphone-is-talking/
    TOMORROW:
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...ans-spy-everyones-iphones-check-spy-software/
     
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