Was that the report that uses a negative term like “leak” than just “use?” All that says is that there are more apps that use the data, not leaked. Leak is a disingenuous term, especially considering your contacts and location data require user permission. If the user gives permission, then it isn’t leaked.

This is the report that sampled 50 apps from each market place and it turns out that 4 of the apps from the Android market actually encrypted the data transmission and all other apps sampled did not (https://www.appthority.com/appreport.pdf).

The report does not list which apps were sampled? The report states that iOS apps are “grabby” with personal data, but then doesn’t compare how many apps on each platform prompt the user for permissions to use Location, Calendar, Contacts data versus the apps that just take the data without the users knowledge.

Vulnerable is the incorrect word. Any iOS or Android app has an equal amount of vulnerability to “leaking” this unencrypted data. The correct term is “probability”. Due to the study and the sample taken, it was found that there is a higher probability that a users iOS app transmits unencrypted data than on Android.

Just incase you were wondering the sample set was: iOS App Store: 50/775,000 (0.0064516%) Android Play Marketplace: 50/800,000 (.00625%)

Clearly a thorough investigation.

I’m probably too late, but you all really need to stop feeding this troll!