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Title: Apple removing hundreds of App Store apps as advertising SDK found to collect sensitive user data via private APIs
Post by: HCK on October 19, 2015, 03:00:22 pm
Apple removing hundreds of App Store apps as advertising SDK found to collect sensitive user data via private APIs

Code analytics platform SourceDNA has found hundreds of apps on the App Store that used private APIs to collect private user data, like email addresses and device identifiers, slipping under Apple’s radar in the approval process. The code got into these apps through the inclusion of a mischievous third-party advertising SDK, which secretly stored this data and sent it off […]<img alt="" border="0" src="(http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif)?host=9to5mac.com&blog=22754319&post=403578&subd=9to5mac&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" />

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