Researchers from IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software Institute, and the University of Calgary, have conducted the first large-scale study—”Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android”—on how certain Android mobile applications use a device’s WiFi and Bluetooth connections to track users’ movements in their daily lives, thereby violating their privacy.
Study reveals how mobile apps track users through WiFi and Bluetooth
