Thousands of mobile apps for children might be violating their privacy

(IMDEA Networks Institute) Thousands of the most popular apps and games available, mostly free of charge, in the Google Play Store, make potentially illegal tracking of children's use habits, according to a large-scale international study co-authored by Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, a researcher at the IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid and ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (USA).
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news