You are what you app: you can be IDed by how you use your smartphone
Usage data collected by devices can yield individual patterns with no need to monitor conversations or behaviours
21 February 2022 - 19:43
App usage on our smartphones is like a trail of breadcrumbs leading in our direction which can “potentially reveal identity”, a new study shows. A third of the time an individual can be picked out of a larger group based on app use patterns, it found...
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