Watch out for apps on your mobile phone secretly scanning your privacy-Android mobile phone security

Some time ago, I posted such a paragraph on Weibo: I had a habit of registering a website. When I asked for a photo name, I entered yuan Sina when I registered Sina, And I called Yuan yahoo when I registered Yahoo, when registering Baidu, I will write yuan Baidu. When registering Google, I will change yuan Google. I received a call today and asked: Is it Miss Yuan Jianshe? I know that China Construction Bank has sold my personal data.

 

In fact, the user's personal data has not been collected and sold once or twice. Especially with the development of mobile technology, mobile phones become more and more powerful, and users start to use mobile phones like computers. We have installed various applications on our mobile phones. We store more and more personal data on our mobile phones. We use our mobile phones to do all kinds of work-even online shopping, but are you worried about yourAndroid mobile security?

 

But if I ask you, have you ever wondered whether your personal data is safe to be stored on your smartphone? Have you ever learned about the android security mode? In fact, our smartphones are obviously not suitable for storing private personal data such as credit cards and stocks. The security of Android phones is truly worrying.

 

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal about regular and extensive data sharing on smartphones. The Wall Street Journal respectively tested 101 Android and iOS apps.ProgramAnd games, no less than 56 apps are found to have scanned and uploaded users' personal data, even including the IMEI number of mobile phones, without the consent of users or other impartial organizations, it can be seen that mastering the android security mechanism is of great significance to users.

 

This test also found that 47 apps sent the geographic location information of mobile phones in some way, the other five applications scan the user's address book and local folder, and then collect and upload the user's gender, phone number, and contact information. Obviously, this result is no doubt shocking. That is to say, as long as you have installed these applications, your personal information, and even your current location, will be exposed to the providers of these applications without reservation. In particular, some multimedia applications that provide local music and video playback are forced to scan the local folder of the mobile phone when they are opened. Users cannot even choose to exit the application before the scan ends, unless you use the application manager to kill it or restart your mobile phone, although not all of these multimedia applications are collecting user data, this forced scan is really inappropriate.

 

The test also found that, compared with Android, IOS apps upload more user data, which may be related to a small number of apps in the android Security Survey. But what is important for users is that they are actually scanned and uploaded.

 

Incredible, the test found that the pop music app Pandora, iPhone or Android, transmits users' geographic locations, gender, age, and identities to Pandora servers over the Internet. The iPhone app textplus sends the phone number along with the area code to eight advertisers. In addition, the most popular company, paper toss, will send users' mobile phone numbers to at least five advertisers, while meeting gay men on the iPhone will send users' mobile phone numbers, age and location to 3 advertising companies.

 

An Apple spokesman once said, "We have made a lot of efforts to protect the privacy of our customers, especially for location-based data. Privacy and trust are very important for apple ." Of course, we cannot deny Apple's efforts. Apple's App store has a strict review system, but this does not seem to help protect user privacy. You may have to rely on application developers. Of course, users should also pay attention to the installation of applications. It is best to install apps with unknown paths and low scores to protect their data privacy to the maximum extent possible.