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Including ads in mobile apps poses privacy, security risks |
March 20, 2012
Researchers have found that including ads in mobile applications poses privacy and security risks. In a recent study of 100,000 apps in the official Google Play market, researchers noticed that more than half contained so-called ad libraries. And 297 of the apps included aggressive ad libraries that were enabled to download and run code from remote servers -- which raises significant privacy and security concerns.
Link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120319111733.htm
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