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What Apps Know About You
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What Apps Know About You: Understanding Mobile Data Collection

The apps on your smartphone know more about you than you might realize. Location history, contacts, photos, browsing habits, health data, financial transactions—apps collect vast amounts of personal information that feeds into surveillance capitalism's business model. Understanding what apps know, how they learn it, and what happens to that information helps users make informed decisions about their digital lives and supports informed policy discussions about data privacy.

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