Smartphone apps… A joy for fun, but a nuisance for data security. Among those asking for debit card information, others in contacts, also in phone calls, There is something to be afraid of!
Last May, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) A study of 1200 applications, 75% of apps ask for one or more permissions to access your personal data! Is our privacy unimportant to accept the showing of apps in their nothingness?
26 enforcement authorities from 19 countries, including France, participated in this study. This shows that a large number of applications are using our privacy by collecting data that we would not even think of.
We’ve all downloaded apps that ask us for permission. These are not always very clear and we sometimes wonder why they are asked of us. In this hyperconnected world, not a single moment of our day is “watched”.
Quite an interesting study that proves us 59% of enterprise-tested apps require authorization to access our private communications. And at least 43% of these authorizations are not adapted to our smartphone screens. In fact, not all of us have a phablet and reading the articles of an app can be complicated sometimes. So we accept and do not ask ourselves any questions.
After all, the app is downloaded millions of times, why get in trouble? All this shows us how much we are watched and how new technologies are deceiving us day by day. Today, when we talk about data security, we immediately think of Facebook or the Cloud with the resulting images. But keep in mind that new debit cards are also no less affected!
Protect your data as much as possible, they are personal and should not be ignored under any circumstances!
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