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We are living in a generation where the bigger percentage of our life depends on digital electronics. Technology has revolutionized health care, communications, transportation, and many other services that our lives entirely depend on. Advancement in smartphone technology has taken this a notch higher, and we are able to get all these services on the go through a press of a button. We do banking transactions, find locations to places we don't know, have calendars and reminders to things we need to do, and can know when we have high blood pressure using smartphones. Smartphones have sophisticated built-in sensors, cameras, microphones, and GPS that are designed to collect data in the surrounding environment and share it with third-parties for analysis. It is highly assumed that the analysis of the collected data is meant to improve our daily activities and make our lives better [2]. However, there are major concerns on the end-user side regarding the collection, analysis, and sharing of this data and impacts on user privacy. In this article, I discuss and look at how user privacy is affected by the advancement in the smartphone technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
