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—We report on the results of a measurement study investigating the cookies, identifiers and other data stored on Android handsets by Google Play Services, the Google Play store and other pre-installed Google apps. We find that multiple cookies and identifiers are sent by Google servers and stored on the handset, even when no Google apps have ever been opened by the user. This includes advertising analytics/tracking cookies, links and device identifiers. No consent is sought for storing any of this data and there is no opt out. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to cast light on the cookies etc stored by this study is the first to cast light on the cookies etc stored by pre-installed Google apps.


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