The Yale University Privacy Lab analyzed hundreds of apps and has found that 3 out of 4 Google Play apps contain at least one “tracker”. Google needs to get their act together and make the companies that are tracking people fess up to what they are doing. Of course this would also mean big brother Google should probably do the same thing. I’m not going to hold my breath. You can read the Yale press release here.



Among the apps found to be using some sort of tracking plugin were some of the most popular apps on the Google Play Store, including Tinder, Spotify, Uber and OKCupid. All four apps use a service owned by Google, called Crashlytics, that primarily tracks app crash reports, but can also provide the ability to “get insight into your users, what they’re doing, and inject live social content to delight them”.

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