Android apps can conspire to mine information from smartphone

[Rubaida Easmin]

Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives. But researchers have recently discovered that the same apps we regularly use on our phones to organize lunch dates, make convenient online purchases, and communicate the most intimate details of our existence have secretly been colluding to mine our information.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403151154.htm