A Fait Accompli? An Empirical Study into the Absence of Consent to Third-Party Tracking
summary
A representative sample from Google Play is analysed with network traffic monitoring to measure real behaviour rather than policies: 1,300 apps are opened and traced, finding over 70% leak data before interaction, fewer than 9.9% request consent, and only 3.5% allow refusal. Thirteen common tracking libraries are audited and their developer guidance is mostly outdated, broken or vague, leaving app developers without reliable, implemented consent mechanisms.
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