Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools – study

Yale University's Privacy Lab using research to call on developers and Google 'for increased transparency into privacy and security practice'

More than three in four Android apps contain at least one third-party "tracker", according to a new analysis of hundreds of apps.

The study by French research organisation Exodus Privacy and Yale University's Privacy Lab analysed the mobile apps for the signatures of 25 known trackers, which use various techniques to glean personal information about users to better target them for advertisements and services.