Super 60% mobile application collects user privacy

According to industry insiders, the main player to collect user privacy information is a mobile advertising company, and a gray interest chain has formed behind it.

Easily stealing user privacy As Google has adopted an open strategy for the Android platform, it has left plenty of opportunities for privacy theft.

DCCI carried out relevant investigations for the first 1400 applications downloaded from various Android markets in China. The report shows that call records, SMS records, and address books are three high-risk areas where users' privacy information is leaked.

"Up to 73.1% of mobile applications that have read call records are cross-border crawls. Users do not need to use this feature at all when they use the app, and these mobile apps are continuously crawling users. Call records," the report pointed out.

For mobile phone users, before installing the application, the system will prompt the user to access the program. Most users do not pay attention to this, in fact, the application is the use of the relevant function call permissions, quietly stole the user's private information.

It is understood that many applications require the user to request permissions other than the actual functions, such as user location, device serial number, address book, and SMS records, and upload user privacy by default.

In addition, related security companies stated in the report seminar that due to the technology and the operating system itself, if the smart phone does not obtain root user management rights through Root, the user itself cannot terminate all installed mobile application pairs in any way. The crawling of sensitive private data.

However, since most users of smart phones have difficulty obtaining Root privileges, even if they know that their privacy is being captured, they have no alternative but for some mobile phone pre-installed applications, users cannot even delete them.

Concealed interest chain Why are so many applications involved in the evil of user information theft? Who is secretly operating? In fact, there is a hidden interest chain behind this.

LBE Security CEO Zhang Yong told Daily Economic News that according to LBE's monitoring of mobile Internet security, the main player who currently collects user privacy information is a mobile advertising company.

"In fact, many small and medium-sized application developers simply have no incentive to steal user information. To earn advertising costs built into the application, developers will sign agreements with mobile advertising platforms to build in-app advertising code. It is these The code, where advertisers use the permissions obtained during application installation, reads user information in bulk and uploads it to their own servers, he said.

According to Zhang Yong, these advertising companies conduct comprehensive analysis of the user's contacts, text messages, and call records, and make judgments, so that accurate advertisement delivery can be made and profits can be made. The spam that is increasingly flooding is also related to this.

According to industry insiders, mobile advertising companies currently hold tens of millions of smart phone UDID (Device Unique Identifier) information. Once they are paired with the user’s mobile phone number, name, location, and social network, future users Privacy will be difficult to preserve.

Qi Aimin, an authoritative expert in domestic personal information legislation, said that relevant regulations should rise to the legislative level. "At present, almost all software has the ability to collect personal information. It is necessary to rely on legislation to restrict the software to collect information," he said.

In this regard, Zhang Yong said that the state should introduce relevant policies and require major application platforms to perform market supervision duties and increase the review of personal privacy protection. At the same time, users themselves should also strengthen their awareness of information security protection.

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