You may fiercely guard your e-privacy by installing anti-virus software and desisting from downloading anything on your smart phone, but someone somewhere may still have access to some of your data.
If a friend or acquaintance has compromised his own privacy while downloading an app, he could have inadvertently put you at risk just because you were in his contacts list. Welcome to the new world of app permissions and malicious software, where increasingly the user is not in command of his own data.
There are two ways in which we expose ourselves: One, by accidentally touching a strategically placed ad on an app; two, by inadvertently authorizing an app to access your data without understanding the permissions it seeks.
As per a 2012 report by a digital security firm, Bit9, more than two-thirds of all Android apps seek at least one high-risk 'permission' and one-fourth access your private information like email and contacts. Full story...
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If a friend or acquaintance has compromised his own privacy while downloading an app, he could have inadvertently put you at risk just because you were in his contacts list. Welcome to the new world of app permissions and malicious software, where increasingly the user is not in command of his own data.
There are two ways in which we expose ourselves: One, by accidentally touching a strategically placed ad on an app; two, by inadvertently authorizing an app to access your data without understanding the permissions it seeks.
As per a 2012 report by a digital security firm, Bit9, more than two-thirds of all Android apps seek at least one high-risk 'permission' and one-fourth access your private information like email and contacts. Full story...
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