Apps aimed at children collect a shocking amount of data

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Apps aimed at kids tend to be the worst at invading privacy. That's one surprising takeaway from the results gathered by computer researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. They just launched PrivacyGrade.org, where every Android app is ranked on how it tracks you. All in all, the team analyzed just over 1 million apps. Nearly 1,000 got the worst rating.


Apps aimed at children collect a shocking amount of data