2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Millions of users of the popular Android operating system could be being monitored, according to research conducted by the Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany.
In a report released by Fortune magazine's online site, the study has claimed that around 200+ Android apps would contain code known as SilverPush, which monitors not just media consumption and internet habits. purchase, also has the potential to decipher the identity and location of the user.
"The monitoring of devices is a threat to the privacy of users, since it allows spying on their habits and activities", presents part of the conclusions given by the research of the prestigious German institution.
The microphone of mobile devices would be a key part of the operation of the code, since through it, users would share, if they knew, information about their location and television consumption habits.
"We found 234 Android applications that are constantly listening for ultrasound guides in the surroundings without users being aware of it," the study adds.
According to Fortune, the creators of SilverPush have ruled on the study, stating that since 2016 they no longer have products that track user information. Which generates an obvious contradiction with the research of the German university, since it establishes that in 2015 SilverPush was found only in 39 applications, a number that increased to more than 200 in January 2017.
The report adds that the main territories affected by the SilverPush incidents would be the markets of the Philippines and India. The investigation did not include the iPhone operating system, so the existence of such information extraction methods cannot be ruled out on iOS.
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