{"id":35807,"date":"2018-07-08T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T12:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35807"},"modified":"2018-07-08T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T12:57:14","slug":"first-of-its-kind-university-study-proves-without-a-doubt-that-your-phone-is-spying-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35807","title":{"rendered":"First of Its Kind University Study Proves Without a Doubt that Your Phone is Spying On You"},"content":{"rendered":"
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First of Its Kind University Study Proves Without a Doubt that Your Phone is Spying On You<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>For years, conspiracy theories about smart phones listening to users without their permission to show them advertisements have abounded. While some researchers have shown this could happen<\/a>, a first of its kind study just found something far more insidious. Academics at Northeastern University have just proven that your phone is recording your screen\u2014as in taking video\u2014and uploading it to third parties.<\/p>\n

For the last year, Elleen Pan, Jingjing Ren, Martina Lindorfer, Christo Wilson, and David Choffnes ran an experiment involving more than 17,000 of the most popular Android apps using ten different phones. Their findings were alarming, to say the least.<\/p>\n

As Gizmodo <\/em>points out,<\/a> during the study, the researchers started to see\u00a0that screenshots and video recordings of what people were doing in apps were being sent to third-party domains. For example, when one of the phones used an app from\u00a0GoPuff<\/a>, a delivery start-up for people who have sudden cravings for junk food, the interaction with the app was recorded and sent to a domain affiliated with Appsee, a mobile analytics company. The video included a screen where you could enter personal information\u2014in this case, their zip code.<\/p>\n

GoPuff did not disclose in its terms of use that its app was recording users screens and uploading this data to a third party. What\u2019s more, when they were contacted by the researchers GoPuff merely added a disclosure to their policy\u00a0acknowledging that\u00a0\u201cApSee\u201d might receive users PII.<\/a><\/p>\n

The fact that these apps can record your screen without you knowing and use this data is chilling. It illustrates how easy it would be for a malicious actor to be able to look at your private messages, personal information, passwords, photos, and videos.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of Its Kind University Study Proves Without a Doubt that Your Phone is Spying On You For years, conspiracy theories about smart phones listening to users without their permission to show them advertisements have abounded. While some researchers have shown this could happen, a first of its kind study just found something far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8126,159,5570,20818,14939,652,15456,765],"class_list":["post-35807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-activist-post","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-matt-agorist","tag-phone","tag-privacy","tag-smartphone","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35808,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35807\/revisions\/35808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}