Smartphones; Read the security rates of your apps

A very large number of apps available in online app stores can access your private photos, watch and record your location, access your email address, address books, and logs of the calls you make.

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Η Bitdefender has looked at 836.021 apps for Android devices from Google Play, and findings raise very serious privacy concerns.

Yesterday on Worldwide Privacy Day, it was revealed that secret services from the United Kingdom and the United States collect data from various popular smartphone apps without the knowledge or consent of their users. Developers have already reacted, saying the spy program is putting the whole industry at risk, since no one will trust mobile apps anymore.

"The uninhibited προσωπικών δεδομένων των καταναλωτών από τις κυβερνήσεις και το hacking στις εφαρμογές είναι απαράδεκτα. Οι προγραμματιστές είναι έκπληκτοι και απογοητευμένοι αφού έμαθαν ότι τα προσωπικά στοιχεία που τους διατίθενται από τους χρήστες συλλέγονται κρυφά και αποθηκεύονται. Αυτό ζημιές από τις πρακτικές επιτήρησης των κυβερνήσεων υπονομεύουν τη σκληρή δουλειά των προγραμματιστών και την ανάπτυξη εφαρμογών” δήλωσε η Application Developers .

According to Bitdefender, more than the 35% of the analyzed applications can monitor the location of a user, even when the application runs in the background. A 6,66% of these applications can send the user's site via the Internet.

With regard to accessing applications to their e-mail address and sending them over the Internet, data show that up to and including 3% of those analyzed can do so. While some of them use encrypted connections to send data, there are others who do it without any security.

Οι εφαρμογές που μπορούν να αποκτήσουν πρόσβαση στην τοποθεσία μιας συσκευής, το βιβλίο διευθύνσεων, τα αρχεία καταγραφής κλήσεων και γεωγραφικών δεδομένων από τις φωτογραφίες που υπάρχουν είναι οι πολύ γνωστές: Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn και .

Depending on the rights granted during installation, applications can edit and send information to "mom" or a third party.

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