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Study reveals mobile ads leak personal data
short by Swarnim Bagre / on Friday, 26 February, 2016
A new study done by the Georgia Institute of Technology on 200 participants, who used a custom-built Android application, revealed that personalized mobile advertisements leak users' personal data. Based on the advertisements shown, researchers found that an app developer could learn the gender of a user with 75% accuracy, age group with 54% accuracy and parental status with 66% accuracy.
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