Meet the personal privacy assistant

Our mobile phones are increasingly capable of generating vast quantities of data about our behavior. Such is the breadth and depth of data collected by our phones, it’s often next to impossible for the average user to both understand what data is being collected and how it’s being used. This is often compounded by the sheer number of services most of us have on our phones.

Thankfully, there’s now an app for that. Privacy Assistant is a new service developed by a team from Carnegie Mellon. It utilizes machine learning to try and give users control over their data again.

Suffice to say, even such an apparently useful service comes with a slight caveat in that it requires the phone to be rooted. This means that the phone is unlocked and can therefore accept unapproved apps. It’s quite a useful thing for your phone to be, but alas the vast majority probably don’t fall into this category.

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