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Do you hate robocalls enough to let an app give your data to third parties in exchange for blocking the spam?
A study found that there were 26.3 billion robocalls made in the US in 2018, and it's the No.
1 source of complaints to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission.
Hastings found that a majority of them were collecting personal data on people's devices without their explicit consent and sharing it with analytics firms.
Hastings is presenting his findings at Defcon's Crypto & Privacy Village on Sunday.
Free apps that provide one solution can turn out to be creating another problem for people's privacy, like when an innocuous-seeming weather app turns out to be selling your location data.
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