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Labor Day Safety Dance

[Sep 03, 2012, 12:25 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Smartphone apps track users even when shut down. Thanks Bob.

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Re: Labor Day Safety Dance

Sep 5, 2012, 06:47

avianflu

Its not that simple. On Android I have had several apps change their privacy settings after a supposedly simple incremental update. It is I suspect intentional to slip these things into an update. Weekly patch updates are "gotchyas" designed to fool the user. The larger issue is that most recently I have seen separate background processes that are installed along with an app. I only install major name apps and still this is happening. You can stop the service in question and see if it breaks the app but geez. The bottomline is I no longer install phone apps unless I actually use them every single day.

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