Mobile apps expose sensitive data and create privacy risks

New research from NowSecure tested 50,000 mobile apps in August and finds over 77 percent contain common forms of PII. It’s well known that the vast majority of mobile apps are built using third-party components like SDKs. The study finds that 98 percent of iOS apps have incomplete privacy manifests due to omissions relating to third-party components, violating Apple transparency requirements and creating major blind spots. In addition 35 percent of iOS apps fail to declare collected data that NowSecure observed during testing. While 10 percent of Android apps don’t even declare a data safety section in the Google Play… [Continue Reading]