{"id":9115,"date":"2021-10-13T20:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/android-phones-still-share-your-data-and-theres-no-way-out\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:03:35","slug":"android-phones-still-share-your-data-and-theres-no-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/10\/13\/android-phones-still-share-your-data-and-theres-no-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Phones Still Share Your Data, And There&#039;s No Way Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, digital privacy is one of the most important talking points, and it seems that we just can\u2019t keep our data safe. Researchers at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland have made a discovery that should make most Android users a little worried. A published paper reveals that, even when you opt-out of all data tracking, some Android phones still share your data.<br \/>\nThe research found that these tracking methods are inevitable<br \/>\nWhen we don\u2019t want our data tracked, we would simply go to our settings (both system and app settings) and tap \u201cDo Not Share.\u201d Though this gives us a sense of security, it doesn\u2019t cover all of the bases. The problem stems from system apps and bloatware.<br \/>\nWhen you get a new phone, there are usually pre-installed apps, and you can\u2019t get rid of some of them. Well, some of those apps actually send a steady stream of data back to either the OEM. This can either go for that gratuitous game launcher that came on your phone or even your calculator.<br \/>\nEven your basic system apps can send data back to the OEM. The research found that the messenger on some phones would send data back to the OEM like timestamps, when you send messages, and how many you send. However, there\u2019s no data suggesting that the company can read the messages.<br \/>\nWhat makes this so worrisome is the fact that you can\u2019t delete these apps. They come baked into the Android software and share your data from the get-go.<br \/>\nThe companies in the research are Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t quite know the extent of this yet, but so far, we know that Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme are some of the companies doing this. This is really scary because Samsung and Huawei are two of the biggest Android manufacturers.<br \/>\nThe aforementioned messaging data swapping happens on Xiaomi and Huawei phones. Considering what happened between Huawei and the US government, it\u2019s surprising to see this still going on.<br \/>\nAndroid phones also share your data with software developers<br \/>\nThe OEMs aren\u2019t the only ones getting fed the data. The research also found that Android phones also share your data to software developers via pre-installed apps. This includes Facebook (yes, the king of internet privacy), Microsoft, Linkedin, Heytap, and even Google itself.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no telling just how many other apps are sending data, but this is a major issue that Google will hopefully address in the future. Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Realme aren\u2019t the only companies doing this, they\u2019re just the biggest offenders.<br \/>\nThe post Android Phones Still Share Your Data, And There&#8217;s No Way Out appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AH-Android-new-logo-opinion-2.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, digital privacy is one of the most important talking points, and it seems that we just can\u2019t keep our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":9116,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9117,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions\/9117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}