Do you make use of a smartphone? Or are you intending start using one in the near future? If so you must be aware of the privacy dangers. Companies are making use of free apps as platforms to enable them to track user’s location, spy on their text messages and even intercept calls. Customers give developers the permission to collect enormous amounts of private information by accepting (without reading fully) the terms and conditions while downloading free apps.
Facebook has its requirement that users of its Android smartphone app must give them the right to know their text messages. However, the popular Facebook seems to have said that it had not taken benefit of this permission it obtained from users of its smartphone. Other social media websites yahoo and flickr have also supposed to read the text messages by means of their apps. Apps of insignificant firms enable them the information of user’s life.
Those free applications can even take images remotely from users’ phone cameras and even dial their phone and intercept calls without the users knowing anything about it. Privacy campaigners condemn this abuse of private information. Personal information of an individual is precious, and businesses will go to any lengths to get their hands on it as much as achievable. The app from Facebook has been downloaded to Google's Android smartphones over hundred million times.
However few of Facebook’s users are considered to know that they have decided to allow Facebook “to know the messages stored on their SIM card or gadgets”.
Apps are also made use in identifying the locality of users through global positioning software. This enabled the free app providers to access the email addresses and phone numbers of their friends. The free apps can also be used to get information about the app users' online browsing records.
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