Apps on mobile phones might have hidden or harmful behaviours about which end-users know little to nothing, according to Ohio State University researcher Zhiqiang Lin. For this study, the research team evaluated 150,000 apps: the top 100,000 based on the number of downloads from the Google Play store, the top 20,000 from an alternative market, ...

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