"Many Android phones ship with software that has been pre-installed by the smartphone vendor......Not only did preinstalled applications harvest geolocation information, personal email, phone call metadata and contacts, but some of them even monitored which applications users installed and opened. In many cases, personal information was funneled straight back to advertising companies."—Danny Bradbury, "Preinstalled Android … Continue reading Preinstalled Android Apps are Harvesting and Sharing Your Data