Android's datascrambling system was good for end users but a "nightmare" for law enforcement and forensics workers, the team at Erlangen's Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) wrote in a blogpost about their work.
These apps failed to implement standard scrambling systems, allowing "man-in-the-middle" attacks to reveal data that passes back and forth when devices communicate with websites.
Biologists scrambling to make decisions about the habitat in southern California found neither a vegetation map nor any demographic data on the gnatcatcher.
The media-measurement, data-exploitation and agency firms are now colliding with each other because the brands that pay for their services are scrambling for ways to make relevant connections with their customers.