We all love free applications like facebook, youtube, etc. But it sad that we dont know that they all pry into our private lives. How many of us know that facebook applications can intercept our calls, can read our text messages, can read and copy our contacts and email without informing us. All we did was to accept to their terms and conditions, they have the right.
The small print included with many mobile phone apps is giving their developers the right to rifle through users' phone books, text messages and emails.
By agreeing to little-read terms and conditions documents, phone users are giving developers the right to inspect their personal information and even find out who they are talking to.
In many shocking cases, users are even giving apps the right to collect whatever images the camera happens to be seeing, as well as the phone's location.
Facebook, Yahoo!, Flickr and Badoo all admitted to reading users' text messages through their Android smartphone apps, the Sunday Times reported.
And many other apps from less well-known developers, many of them available for free, are also including the rights to access your personal data in their terms and conditions.
Academics are now warning the many apps are little more than 'fronts' to allow companies to hoover up personal data and pass them on to advertisers for a fee.
In many shocking cases, users are even giving apps the right to collect whatever images the camera happens to be seeing, as well as the phone's location.
Facebook, Yahoo!, Flickr and Badoo all admitted to reading users' text messages through their Android smartphone apps, the Sunday Times reported.
And many other apps from less well-known developers, many of them available for free, are also including the rights to access your personal data in their terms and conditions.
Academics are now warning the many apps are little more than 'fronts' to allow companies to hoover up personal data and pass them on to advertisers for a fee.
But the revelations also make clear that the wealth of data collected by the new generation of smartphones could pose a serious risk to users' privacy.
You need to be careful about the applications you downloaded in the net because of them are truely exploiting the users.
YOUR DATA: WHAT THE APPS CAN ACCESS
| Location data | Internet history | Text messages | Contact book | Online account IDs | Who you are calling | May intercept calls | Can access camera | |
| Flickr | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| Flixster | x | x | x | |||||
| YouTube | x | x | x | |||||
| Foursquare | x | x | x | |||||
| TweetDeck | x | x | x | |||||
| Netflix | x | |||||||
| x | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Ancestry.co.uk | x | x | ||||||
| Badoo | x | x | x | x | x | |||
| Angry Birds | x | x | ||||||
| Yahoo! Messenger | x | x | x | x | ||||
| Shazam | x | x | ||||||
| My Fitness Pal | x | x | x | |||||
| My Remote Lock | x | x | x |
You need to be careful about the applications you downloaded in the net because of them are truely exploiting the users.
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