Do you seriously read all permissions while you install an app ? For many of us, the answer is a big NO. But while installing an app you unconsciously give many permissions. So here is a piece of bad news for you. You are under a continuous surveillance of your favourite smartphone application. In fact, the apps you have installed for your help are spying on you.
This news became renowned when a team of computer scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University conducted a research on twenty-three randomly selected Android 4.3 users from Craiglist and Carnegie Mellon University's student body. As a result, more than a score of android apps including some of the famous apps like Go Launcher Ex, Groupon, Facebook etc. collect your location data up to 50 meters near you roughly every 3 minutes or 6200 times a week. This doesn't end here, but even your personal details like galleries, call logs and many more are on record with the app publisher.
Norman M. Sadeh, a Carnegie Mellon professor who co-authored the study questioned:
This report may cause unwarrented suspicion among the public in the era where security and privacy are the foremost concerns of every user.
This news became renowned when a team of computer scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University conducted a research on twenty-three randomly selected Android 4.3 users from Craiglist and Carnegie Mellon University's student body. As a result, more than a score of android apps including some of the famous apps like Go Launcher Ex, Groupon, Facebook etc. collect your location data up to 50 meters near you roughly every 3 minutes or 6200 times a week. This doesn't end here, but even your personal details like galleries, call logs and many more are on record with the app publisher.
Norman M. Sadeh, a Carnegie Mellon professor who co-authored the study questioned:
"Does Groupon really need to know where you are every twenty minutes?"
While some of the apps like navigation, forecasting etc are answerable to this obtrusion but the others are invading the privacy of unaware users. Some of the pre-installed services like google play services distribute this information to a variety of third party apps. What's more worse is that you have no control over this.This report may cause unwarrented suspicion among the public in the era where security and privacy are the foremost concerns of every user.
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