Find Out Where Mobile Data Really is Going

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Melissa Aparicio, writer for PC World, shares where your mobile data could be going.

Know where your mobile data is going? Some apps can tell you.

Andrew Hoog, the CEO and co-founder of mobile security firm viaForensics puts it plainly: “Your data is being sent a lot of places that you don’t realize.”

Perhaps that’s why at this week’s RSA conference in San Francisco, there was a lot of interest among attendees in tools you can use to secure mobile devices.

That includes tools like viaForensics’s Via Protect, a new app that detects and analyzes where the data from your mobile phone is being transmitted. The free app runs on iOS and Android.

Read the entire article Know Where Your Mobile Data is Going? Some Apps Can Tell You on PC World.