Mobile phones and social platforms have become an important means of entertainment, and users are increasingly questioning their private information security. A recent report by the Wall Street Journal noted that popular mobile gaming, Rovio's "Angry Birds" and PopCap's gem bejeweled, shared the user's profile with a third party. The report investigates popular apps on several iphone platforms to see if they send users information to third parties, such as "Angry Birds", "Gem bejeweled 2", "Graffiti jumping", and Twitter,yelp (consumer review site). YouTube's mobile client. The report uses charts to classify the types of information that users are exposed to, such as cell phone IDs, user locations, age and sex, contract contracts and even the user's cell phone number. According to the chart, "Angry Birds" almost leaked all of the above user information to third parties, is the most serious information disclosure of the application, "Gem Bejeweled 2" also leaked to the third party the user's mobile phone number. The Rovio company immediately issued a statement in the UK Trade website develop, firmly denied that their products violate Apple's user agreement or put the user's personal information at risk, and pointed out that because of the ambiguity of the report, will lead to the user's "distrust." Rovio said that they sent users ' data to the crystal Social gaming platform and the flurry (mobile application analytics) Two third parties to analyze and understand the user groups of the company's own products. Two companies do not store data, they are aggregated and counted, and the data does not contain the user's personal information. Reports from the Wall Street Journal show that users are very concerned about whether their privacy has been compromised while playing social games. As of press time, a real-time poll on the Wall Street Journal's website showed on the question of when to notify users that their information will be collected, 66.6% (about 3138 people) said that the application "every time" to collect and send information must inform users, 23.4% of respondents choose " "When I first installed my application," 8.6% of respondents chose "when sending information to other companies," while only 1.4% said "it doesn't matter". The report also notes that Facebook games also reveal user information. The report says many game developers have intentionally and unintentionally allowed third parties to obtain personal information about the player. Facebook then responded by announcing the closure of Ravenwood Fair, a developer Lolapps, for a 6-month period.
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