{"id":11925,"date":"2011-01-01T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T02:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=11925"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:44:17","slug":"warning-smartphone-apps-may-be-spying-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2011\/01\/warning-smartphone-apps-may-be-spying-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Smartphone Apps May be Spying on You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have guessed I don&#8217;t have the most massive privacy concerns. However most people do, and this might interest you&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An examination of 101 popular smartphone \u201capps\u201d\u2014games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones\u2014showed that 56 transmitted the phone\u2019s unique device ID to other companies without users\u2019 awareness or consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the phone\u2019s location in some way. Five sent age, gender and other personal details to outsiders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html\" rel=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/apps-spying-360x149.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pandora app spying\" width=\"360\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11926\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704694004576020083703574602.html\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Check out the full article by the Wall Street Journal&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have guessed I don&#8217;t have the most massive privacy concerns. However most people do, and this might interest you&#8230; An examination of 101 popular smartphone \u201capps\u201d\u2014games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones\u2014showed that 56 transmitted the phone\u2019s unique device ID to other companies without users\u2019 awareness or consent. Forty-seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought","category-geek-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}