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With a few seconds of physical access to a phone, even apps as common as Google Maps and Apple's Find My Friends can be tweaked to persistently share a user's location with another contact while offering the phone's owner no notification or warning, the researchers told me. "It's not the presence of some app on your device that’s disconcerting, it's that it might be configured in some way that you weren’t aware of and didn’t agree to," said Sam Havron, another Cornell researcher.
With a few seconds of physical access to a phone, even apps as common as Google Maps and Apple's Find My Friends can be tweaked to persistently share a user's location with another contact while offering the phone's owner no notification or warning, the researchers told me. "It's not the presence of some app on your device that’s disconcerting, it's that it might be configured in some way that you weren’t aware of and didn’t agree to," said Sam Havron, another Cornell researcher.
