The security company explains that location tracking is used in contextual ads that display content based on your geographical position. The analysis further found that 41.41% were location-tracking apps, “meaning users are likely to broadcast their position at any time without knowing it.” However we were surprised that so many don’t,” Bitdefender tells Softpedia. They found that only 57.54% encrypt stored data, calling it “a fair percent.” But fair isn’t good, says the company: “We recognize not all apps justify data encryption. More than one in three store data without encrypting it, the company says.īitdefender analyzed no less than 65,000 apps (from a total of 650,000 titles available in the iOS App Store), to offer a good perspective of where the iPhone user is situated from a security standpoint. Romania-based security software vendor, Bitdefender, discovered that one in five iOS apps can access the Address Book, and around 41 percent can track location.
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