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Personal Data Surveillance of Smartphone Users Through Apps Is Overlooked: Cybersecurity Adviser
This illustration picture shows social media applications logos from Linkedin, YouTube, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter displayed on a smartphone in Arlington, Va., on May 28, 2020. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images
Ella Kietlinska
By Ella Kietlinska
11/6/2020Updated: 11/6/2020

Collecting personal information from internet users through social media apps in order to promote certain products to those users or influence their voting for a presidential candidate gets overlooked, said Rex Lee cybersecurity and privacy adviser.

Mobile apps such as Facebook or Twitter apps can be used to collect personal data including “emails, email attachments, photos, and instant messages,” Lee said in a recent interview on Epoch Times’ Crossroads program.
Ella Kietlinska
Ella Kietlinska
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Ella Kietlinska is an Epoch Times reporter covering U.S. and world politics.
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