MIT researchers downloaded 500 popular free Android applications from Google Play Store and then monitored the communication made from them to remote servers. They discovered that 63% of the communication with remote servers had “no effect on the user-observable application functionality”. While there could be a good reason for these apps to communicate with servers this often, the researchers feel the user should be informed.
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