{"id":11436,"date":"2021-04-08T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:24:48","slug":"google-complains-about-tracking-users-of-android-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11436","title":{"rendered":"Google Complains About Tracking Users of Android Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new complaint has been received against the American company Google. This time the initiator was the Austrian activist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Schrems\">Max<\/a> Schrems, who suspects the corporation of permanent illegal surveillance of Android smartphone users.<\/p>\n<p>Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 08, 2021 \u2013 Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This became known thanks to the material of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/economy\/discussion-about-the-creation-of-a-specialized-financial-court\/\">Financial<\/a> Times. The activist said that unique Android Advertising Identifier (AAID) codes are generated in smartphones based on the Android operating system. They are identical to Apple&#8217;s advertising IDs, which allows Google and third parties to monitor the actions of users on the Internet to improve the issuance of advertising. He also pointed out that it is impossible to disable tracking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; With the help of these hidden identifiers on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/technology\/lg-closes-the-smartphone-division-completely\/\">phone<\/a>, Google and third parties can track users without their consent,&#8221; said a lawyer with the non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NOYB\">organization<\/a> None of Your Business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the organization noted that these actions contradict the European legislation on cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/labaziuk-the-state-should-support-the-business-during-the-lockdown\/\">Labaziuk: The State Should Support the Business During the Lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new complaint has been received against the American company Google. This time the initiator was the Austrian activist Max Schrems, who suspects the corporation of permanent illegal surveillance of Android smartphone users. Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 08, 2021 \u2013 Technology \u00a0 This became known thanks to the material of the Financial Times. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1766,455,853,4509,5483,1024],"class_list":["post-11436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-android","tag-google","tag-smartphones","tag-tech-news","tag-tracking-users","tag-ukrgate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}