Platform Android - a haven for spyware

Many consider that the rules of the App Store and the requirements for distributed applications through him too hard. The people want freedom, under which many people understand more anarchy - permissiveness, which jeopardizes the literally tens of millions of people. Free program flashlight for Android-devices has become a prime example.

Brightest Flashlight Free and true to download several tens of millions of users. In keeping with its core function - Using the flash and the device's screen as a flashlight - the utility is also sent to the server developers some users' personal data, including their exact location and UDID (unique device identifier), which are then sold advertisers.

Although the program is also sent to the user agreement Brightest Flash Free explicitly stated that some information about the network users, that she began to deal with before, as a person chooses to accept such conditions, or refuse them.

Even if you do not mind if it floated on the screen banner, selected on the basis thereof personal data, it should be understood that such a background collection of information is possible, but not so innocent purposes. The greatest anxiety should cause the fact that Android-device programs themselves decide Do they collect data about users and whether to send them to any server - users and neither sleep nor spirit. But there are also All Android-program, which does not report unsuspecting users that it sends to the outside world any information about him.

On the other hand, Apple has long made sure that the user can independently - and explicitly - to specify which programs to allow access to certain personal data. But if you become annoying iOS requests for access to the "photographic film" phonebook or your location, remember the freedom Android-users who may not even know that at the moment of their spud another enterprising rogue, whose activities are not harmless no one can guarantee.

— By Material Graham Cluley