Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Many Android steal private data of users

Many applications in the top 50 free applications on the Android Market is able to steal private data at a high level of the user such as contact list advertising purposes.
 
According to the Daily Mail, MWR security company has discovered several free applications including Fruit Ninja games are very popular that contains code to steal confidential data transmitted on the network and MobClix advertising.
 
 
Users agree to allow applications to access the phone's functions, but by no means allow them to pass information to advertisers. It is not clear what data is being used to do and they are stored remotely or not?
Meanwhile, a quarter of mobile users in the UK use the Android phone. And just in January there were 100 million Android applications downloaded in the UK.
 
Benjamin Cohen, a Channel 4 reporter is investigating this incident said: "Channel 4 News are trying to access MobClix, this company is part of Nasdaq listed companies. Over time we have not contact with the answer that they are doing with that data. "
 
Vice President of the European Commission Viviane Reding also said: "This really worries me, this is illegal because no one has the right to take your personal data without your consent."

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