It turned out that some mobile tracking applications, which allow people to track their children on Android, leaked the personal data of parents to third-party companies. In a study conducted by the Cybernews research team, the 10 most popular child monitoring apps were scrutinized. These applications are used by 85 million people in total. It has been determined that one of these applications, which has been downloaded approximately 50 million times, is “critical risk”.
One of the biggest problems with these apps is that they contain third-party tracking codes. This means that the data of both the children and the parents watching them are collected. This collected data can be used for many purposes, especially it is thought to be sold for targeted advertising.
It is stated that the applications carry an average of two viewers, with some as high as nine. Other applications on the same device can also access the data of these monitoring applications. This means that the location of both children and their parents of potential attackers can be tracked.
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