{"id":13885,"date":"2015-03-31T03:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:00:32","slug":"where-were-you-3-minutes-ago-your-apps-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/where-were-you-3-minutes-ago-your-apps-know","title":{"rendered":"Where Were You 3 Minutes Ago? Your Apps Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"popTrigger\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.wsj.com\/person\/A\/biography\/7743\">Elizabeth Dwoskin \u2014 Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of smartphone apps collect so much location data that their publishers can plot users\u2019 comings and goings in detail, a forthcoming peer-reviewed study found.<\/p>\n<p>Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University concluded that a dozen or so popular Android apps collected device location \u2013 GPS coordinates accurate to within 50 meters \u2013 an average 6,200 times, or roughly every three minutes, per participant over a two-week study period.<\/p>\n<p>The research comes at a time of increasing concern about electronic privacy. A 2014 Pew survey found that more than 90 percent of Americans feel they\u2019ve lost control over personal data.<em><strong> <\/strong><\/em>While savvy users understand that using mobile devices entails some privacy tradeoffs \u2013 for example, a navigation app will reveal their location to the app\u2019s publisher \u2013 most don\u2019t realize the extent to which such information is collected and distributed, the researchers said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2015\/03\/23\/where-were-you-3-minutes-ago-your-apps-know\/?mod=ST1\" target=\"_blank\">Ready more<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth Dwoskin \u2014 Wall Street Journal Dozens of smartphone apps collect so much location data that their publishers can plot users\u2019 comings and goings in detail, a forthcoming peer-reviewed study found. Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University concluded that a dozen or so popular Android apps collected device location \u2013 GPS coordinates accurate to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64782,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions\/64782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}