Android: More Leftovers
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Quarter of all Android apps ask for users' GPS location data
About a quarter of all apps on the Android smartphone operating system ask for users' precise location using GPS coordinates.
That's one of the findings from a Pew Research study that analyzed more than 1 million apps in the Google Play store.
Twenty-one percent ask for a user's approximate location. About 6 percent of those apps ask to read a user's contacts, while 4 percent ask for access to a user's call logs.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Wifi Version With Android 5.1.1 Lollipop Update – What’s New?
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Offline navigation comes to Google Maps (for Android)
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Google Maps finally gets offline navigation, but only on Android for now
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9 Sweet Hidden Features Inside Android 6.0 Marshmallow
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo LTE Getting Android 5.1.1 Lollipop Update [Release Date, Features & Download]
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Android Candy: If You're Not Using This, Then Do That
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