Mobile Internet market reappears user privacy dispute

Pea Pods uploaded some of the user's information, and the mobile Internet market reproduced user privacy disputes, arguing that in the cloud service era, this is to better serve users.

Weibo data questioned

User awareness of the constantly innovative high pea pod trap "privacy door."

Wang Junyu, co-founder of the Pea Lab, said on Weibo that "each pea-pod user has an average of 78 applications installed on their phones, with only 28 photos and 24 songs". According to this, the information Web site TechWeb's broad Bean network March 2 published an article said, "Pea pod if you can learn the use of the smartphone application, photos and even the number of songs, it means that pea pod may be the possibility of stealing user privacy information."

March 5, the Broad Bean Network released a detailed report. Broad bean nets through fiddler to the Pea Pod Mobile Phone wizard and the transmission of packets between the packet and do a comparative analysis, the conclusion is that Pea pod Windows version 1.24 and 2.0 two versions exist upload packet behavior.

The Pea Lab responded that the bean network indicated that the packet contained "overall statistics on mobile phone data", which contains the total number of contacts, total numbers of applications, music, pictures, and videos, which will be used to improve the functionality of the software.

The Paradox of user privacy

The data from the broad bean network shows that the Pea pod packet increases by 4752byte for each additional 5 contacts. This means that the pea lab not only knows how much data the user has added, but also what the data is.

"But isn't that what cloud services are all about now?" The user's information needs to be transferred to the server provided by the enterprise, so that the next time users can view the data from the Internet. If only one statistic is uploaded, how can the enterprise provide detailed services? Netizens asked.

This is the paradox of user privacy in the cloud era. "Enterprise is actually the user's some data reported to the server, the enterprise said this is to provide users with better design improvements." But this kind of thing is really hard to define. Senior software Engineer Zhao said.

As Zhao said, this is not a business problem with peas and pods. There are a lot of products and pea pod functions similar to the former most popular 91 assistants trapped after the door, hit 91 of the user group, the software quickly in the market recession. After all, anyone who wants to install a reliable software does not like their privacy to be compromised. (Lin Chiling)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)