Study finds Android app-makers careless with some data

12.08.2011

Mahaffey believes that many developers reuse code that's been written by other developers, and that often this type of data collection may happen without the software maker even realizing that it's going on. "It puts developers in an interesting place if they're using opaque third-party code," he said. "If they have no idea that tracking is going on, it's very difficult for them to tell users about it."

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