This paper ("50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps’ Circumvention of the Android Permissions System"): https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-reardon.pdf … They investigated real use of side channels by Google Play apps, and found that some of it was for invasive ads, afaik.
Question to my Twittersphere: There are stories in the media about mobile platforms/apps spying on conversations to extract information for targeted advertisements. Does anyone know of “proof” for this spying (e.g., app being caught using the microphone; scientific study; etc)?
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Right, but those SDKs or apps did not record audio surreptitiously to gather keywords for ads, right?
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Most articles I've found say "yes, it's creepy, but it's not audio -- it's coincidence/other factors, not audio." This article is a classic case:https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/28/18158968/facebook-microphone-tapping-recording-instagram-ads …
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The NYTimes story about Alfonso is the closest we have to ground truth that this happens at any sort of scale beyond stalkerware.
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have you tried running an experiment ?
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