#iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find

source: https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-can-harvest-data-from-notifications-1851194537

Users sometimes close apps to stop them from collecting data in the background, but this technique gets around that #protection. The data is unnecessary for processing notifications, the researchers said, and seems related to #analytics, #advertising, and #tracking users across different apps and devices. Some of the companies involved said these findings are inaccurate.

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