MIT researchers say many popular Android apps call out covertly
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Downloading popular Android apps from non-official sources is a bad idea, but even legit apps can do potentially unwanted things in the background without drawing attention. Researchers from MIT dug through some of the most popular apps on Google Play and found that most of them access the network covertly.
The research team pored over the top 500 popular applications on Google Play, though some-mostly chat apps, since they require readily available and somewhat unpredictable ...