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Understanding worldwide private information collection on android

Shen et al., 2021

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8448243766882481920
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Shen Y
Vervier P
Stringhini G
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arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.12869

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Mobile phones enable the collection of a wealth of private information, from unique identifiers (eg, email addresses), to a user's location, to their text messages. This information can be harvested by apps and sent to third parties, which can use it for a variety of purposes …
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