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• Disaster apps share personal data in violation of their privacy policies

  Nov 16, 2020 10:15 am by Jodi HeckelResearch
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  Information sciences professor Madelyn Sanfilippo examined popular disaster apps and found that many of them provide personal information – including a user’s location – to third parties long after a disaster has passed.

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