[Freedombox-discuss] UUID tracked

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Opera stated: “Imagine if advertisers or websites had the serial
number of your computer after every time you visited, and you
couldn’t turn that off,” said Scott Swanson, head of the Opera team
that developed App-Tribute, in a phone interview with TPM. “The
fact that this [UDID] has been available to advertisers and
developers in the first place has never sat well with me.”

Swanson said that potentially, because the UDID stays constant,
“companies could collect and share information about a user, and
that could be an invasion of privacy.”
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/as-apple-stops-apps-
from-using-phone-ids-opera-offers-solution.php

"Sparrowvsrevolution writes "In the wake of news that the iPhone
app Path uploads users' entire contact lists without permission,
Forbes dug up a study from a group of researchers at the University
of California at Santa Barbara and the International Security
Systems Lab that aimed to analyze how and where iPhone apps
transmit users' private data. Not only did the researchers find
that one in five of the free apps in Apple's app store upload
private data back to the apps' creators that could potentially
identify users and allow profiles to be built of their activities;
they also discovered that programs in Cydia, the most popular
platform for unauthorized apps that run only on 'jailbroken'
iPhones, tend to leak private data far less frequently than Apple's
approved apps. The researchers ran their analysis on 1,407 free
apps (PDF) on the two platforms. Of those tested apps, 21 percent
of official App Store apps uploaded the user's Unique Device
Identifier, for instance, compared with only four percent of
unauthorized apps."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/0036242/unauthorized-ios-
apps-leak-private-data-less-than-approved-ones
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