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Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy

  • Written by Joseph K. Nwankpa, Associate Professor of Information Systems & Analytics, Miami University
imageIt's not you: App privacy settings really can be complicated.Drazen Zigic/iStock via Getty Images

Default privacy settings in popular mobile apps seem like a convenience, allowing you to use a single setting to control the level of privacy – who can see which actions you take – across all of the app’s functions. But default...

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