Public comments by CCTV exposure

Absrtact: March 15 News, with the increasing popularity of smartphones, mobile internet access security has become a growing concern. CCTV 315 Today exposure to public comments, refers to the public comment secretly uploaded user phone model, daily address. CCTV pointed out that now intelligent

The March 15 news, with the increasing popularity of smartphones, mobile internet access security has become a growing concern. CCTV 315 Today exposure to public comments, refers to the public comment secretly uploaded user phone model, daily address.

CCTV pointed out that more and more smartphone users, there are many contacts in the phone is very detailed, there are some chat records, photos, and even some friends account, but users in the use of some software but leaked user information.

The Internet Research Center of Fudan University has monitored the software of more than 300 Android handsets, and the results are worrying, with more than 98% being the so-called privacy breach. What is even more shocking is that the apps are being removed from the phone by users without their knowledge.

CCTV reporters try to install an Android version of the software, before installation will see such information, the approximate location, accurate location, if the installation of this software as long as the user phone can be normal call, can be anytime and anywhere by the blue box know. Users do not know they are being watched. And users do not open the app, the phone will receive a text message.

Reporters then visited Chongqing, Shenzhen, Shanghai and other software development enterprises, found that the industry using Android version of mobile phone software to access user personal information is not a case. One industry source said: "I want to transfer his address book, Android is unrestricted, can be." Any thing in a short time SD card can be got. ”

These people pointed out that, like uploading the phone address book, is actually the default on the Internet a hidden rule. In addition to software development companies, some mobile internet advertising companies are also involved in the industry to obtain user's personal information, by implanting an SDK package within mobile apps, these companies can easily access user data. The user's phone model, daily address, including peacetime consumption habits can be known.

Some Android phone software developers say the user's personal information is designed to provide better services to users, and before installation will prompt the user what the software has access to personal information, once the user installed such software, personal information may sneak to the software developers there.

"It's a truth that you go into other people's accounts and flip the books." "Personally, users do not want to be called personal information, 80% or 90% of people do not know their mobile phone has such a thing, but many people have."

According to CCTV, the user has not been aware of such a prompt. However, including the Shanghai Di Three companies for the public comment network developed such software.