Time to rethink apps security

An opinion piece on CNN by Arun Vishwanath, associate professor of communication, looks at privacy issues stemming from third-party mobile app design and what can be done to fix them. “Fixing these requires the owners of the mobile platforms – Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft – who directly benefit by selling phones, advertisements and products to users, to proactively influence the designers of apps. It's the app stores that then hold the key to securing our privacy, because with great apps also comes greater responsibility toward all of us,” he writes.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/01/opinions/problem-app-security-vishwanath/index.html