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90 percent of all free Android apps on Play Store share user data with Google

As many as 90 percent of all free apps available on the Google Play Store share data with Google’s parent company Alphabet, and they do so without the knowledge of the person whose data is being shared. The report also states that about 43 percent of apps on the Play Store share data with Facebook. They claim that “it mischaracterises ordinary functional services like crash reporting and analytics, and how apps share data to deliver those services,” the company told BBC. While Android and Chrome platforms, and now free apps, remain critical vehicles for Google’s data collection process, it is imperative that the company shares what their policies truly are instead of simply denying the claims of news reports.

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