Anonymous ID: f65c4a July 6, 2018, 7:44 p.m. No.2063233   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

First-Of-Its-Kind University Study Proves Without A Doubt That Your Phone Is Spying On You

 

or years, conspiracy theories about smart phones listening to users without their permission to show them advertisements have abounded.

While some researchers have shown this could happen, a first of its kind study just found something far more insidious. Academics at Northeastern University have just proven that your phone is recording your screen - as in taking video - and uploading it to third parties.

 

For the last year, Elleen Pan, Jingjing Ren, Martina Lindorfer, Christo Wilson, and David Choffnes ran an experiment involving more than 17,000 of the most popular Android apps using ten different phones. Their findings were alarming, to say the least.

 

As Gizmodo points out, during the study, the researchers started to see that screenshots and video recordings of what people were doing in apps were being sent to third-party domains. For example, when one of the phones used an app from GoPuff, a delivery start-up for people who have sudden cravings for junk food, the interaction with the app was recorded and sent to a domain affiliated with Appsee, a mobile analytics company. The video included a screen where you could enter personal information - in this case, their zip code.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-06/first-its-kind-university-study-proves-without-doubt-your-phone-spying-you