In a piece for The New York Times' Tech Fix, Brian Chen breaks down how privacy practices of decades-old mobile apps are falling behind in the modern digital landscape. Chen used mobile payment app Venmo as an example, opining the 15-year-old app still functions in a way where publicly available transaction data "could be used to study your movements or ... inadvertently disclose relationships."
Mobile app privacy falls behind in digital evolution
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