Showing only posts tagged data harvesting. Show all posts.

Data-harvesting code in mobile apps sends user data to “Russia’s Google”

Source

Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located in its home country. The revelation relates to software created by Yandex that permits developers to …