First results of the Mobilitics project

Last week, Inria and CNIL (french data protection agency) have published the first results of the Mobilitics project. This collaborative project between CNIL and Inria Privatics team aims to investigate privacy concerns for smartphone users. Those results shows that mobile application are accessing private information more than necessary.

• CNIL’s website (fr): Voyage au cœur des smartphones et des applications mobiles avec la CNIL et Inria
• ERCIM News: Mobilitics: Analyzing Privacy Leaks in Smartphones  

• Le Monde (fr): La CNIL et l’Inria se penchent sur les applications qui nous espionnent
• PCWorld: Study: Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary