What the hell is that Android Apps know about you? – TeK.sapo

Since Internet access, natural network to connect, their exact location, contacts, photos and possibility of audio recording, the list of permissions required by many applications is enormous. And disproportionate.
 
 

Just look closely at the features of detail required by the apps before installing them to realize that the risk of privacy violation is high. And the decision is only possible to install or not the application.
 
 

The site
 PrivacyGrade set out to analyze the privacy requirements of more than one million Android applications and to publish the results, classifying them with notes ranging from A + to D, for those with the priors practices.
 
 
 

The aim is to enable users to realize the type of demands made by applications and know better manage the issue when they install, instead of carrying rapidly in the accept button to finish the installation.
 
 

Among the applications worst ranking are apps for children, such as My Talking Tom, or the popular Fruit Ninja game.
 
 

There are about 60 features that developers of the Android platform can manage, with the authorization of users from access to contacts, call list, microphone and video camera, among others, and many end up having to give access without being directly related to the purpose of the application.
 

The US authorities have followed some cases and there are already fines for excessive collection and use of information. The social network Path was fined $ 800,000 in 2013 for collecting telephone contact from list of users and this year the Yelp site was also punished in $ 450,000 to collect location information of underage users.
 
 

In PrivacyGrade site analysis you can see that the vast majority of apps requesting access to contacts, text messages and microphone.
 

The practice is not limited to Android applications and is also available in iOS platforms, Windows and BlackBerry, although not analyzed in the present site. a more comprehensive analysis of AVG shows that 25% of the 100 most downloaded applications in three main stores do not disclose privacy policies.
 
 

If you want to know more about what their Android applications know about him is worth going through PrivacyGrade site and do a search. The exact location of the possibility to send messages or change your contact list, the permissions required by the applications are many. And scary ….
 
 
 
 

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