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While most of us are worried about third-party apps and the kind of invasive tracking they do, your Android device itself could be doing a lot on its own.

Third-party tracking remains ‘a significant and ubiquitous privacy threat’

Company’s messages and Dialer apps, used by millions of Android phone users globally, currently send huge amounts of data to Google every time a text is sent or a phone call is made, Trinity College study found

Concerns have been raised in a Trinity College Dublin study about the privacy implications of the data collected by Google Dialer and Messages apps on Android phones. The recent study, by Prof. Doug Leith at the CONNECT SFI Research Centre for Future

Concerns raised about its Dialer and Messages apps pre-installed on android phones

Concerns raised about its Dialer and Messages apps pre-installed on Android phones

The Trinity team said there is no opt-out option on the data being collected from these apps, which are installed on more than 1bn devices.

How much do you trust your Android smartphone? A new study suggests its spying on you

Academic study examining six different types of handsets raises privacy concerns

The authors of the study said that the data collection they observed went well beyond occasional communication with Android OS servers.