What do you know about your Android smartphone? (Infographic) - Media2.pl

Although many free apps for Android has the ability to collect more data than is needed for their operations, many of them avoid this, potentially reaching more credibility among users – shows the study by Bitdefender technology-based Clueful.

what you know about your smartphone – infographics

The latest study, which examined 260 thousand. popular free applications available on Google Play, showed that approximately 35.97% application can track your location while they are running. Approximately 13.46% application can retrieve your unique hardware identifier (UDID), which allows you to track your behavior in more than one application.

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Applications that can read your list of contacts are 9.14% and 9.91% can obtain your phone number and then download it. The study also showed that 6.43% of the analyzed application can retrieve your e-mail address, and 6.65% can read your browsing history.

class=”qt inContext_disabled”> Whether developers of mobile applications and content network transmitting advertising (adware), collect private data or not. Question for permission to collect this type of data is just as bad as actually making it. It is as if a stranger asked us for permission to enter our house would ever wish to do so to be able to search through our library or personal items said Catalin Cosoi, head of BitDefender Security Strategy

what you know about your smartphone – infographics