8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information

kai_hiwatari writes "Neil Daswani, who is also the CTO of security firm Dasient, says that they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server. Neil Daswani is scheduled to present the full findings at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas which starts on July 30th. The Dasient researchers also found out that 11 of the apps they have examined are sending unwanted SMS messages."

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The Apple solution

[mjwx]

says that they have studied around 10,000 Android apps and have found that 800 of them are leaking private information of the user to an unauthorized server

Perhaps Google should follow Apple's lead here and simply change the EULA to give permission for application writers to access personal information and location.

That would certainly get rid of the "unauthorised" part of that statement.