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Study: What Android whispers about you

As a follow-up to the recent article "Still online, still chatting", I came across a rather interesting study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh. It deals with the data that the device sends to Android mobile phone manufacturers and to Google itself. All the tested devices were erased by the researchers to factory settings and during their initialization they opted out (did not listen) to all the "requests" of the manufacturers to provide data and [...]