In an effort to better understand how their customers interact with mobile apps, certain companies employed a third-party analytics data that can record everything you do while inside an application, including every single tap, swipe and text input. All that happens without explicit consent from the user, who has no idea that screenshots from the app may reach a third-party server, sometimes including sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers, passwords, and contact details.
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Popular iPhone apps caught recording your screen without permission – here are the offenders originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 07:31:43 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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