App publishers like consumer data so much that they’re willing to go to great lengths to get it — even when those lengths involve ignoring or working around the consumer denying them the right to that data. At the Federal Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon 2019, held in June, researchers from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) presented data showing that as many as 1,325 Android apps were gathering data from devices, even after the device owners had denied such permission to the apps.

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