Android - the little spy in your pocket

Google has, since its emergence, has denied all the axioms of business, managed to build a thriving business in the free products. The best search, mail, many other services are provided to users for free, but at the same time, brings to the company a good income. So the Google, instead of money, takes us to something else?

Exactly. We pay for the use of the company's products with their attention and their private information. As I already wrote article about how Google collects data on our network. Today we will focus on a different aspect of the issue, as mobile devices with Android on board spy on their owners.

The history of your travels

Android default tracks the location of your phone. It uses this information to make your life easier, for example, Google Now will show you the weather, sights and routes associated with your location. He can also use this data to allow you to keep track of the Internet lost phone using Android Device Manager features.

At the same time it means that Google knows where and when you were together with your phone. And be sure that these data are accumulated and stored carefully. And even if you turn off the GPS, your location will still be quite accurately determined by the nearby Wi-Fi networks and cell towers.

By the way, you've come up with a sufficiently complex password to his mantle? We tried in vain. Just one tick to backup your data Options Send your super complicated password to Google. This company knows the passwords to all the wireless networks in the world, not bad, right?

Messages, contacts, and events

Android provides a really convenient service to synchronize your email, calendar, and address book entries between different devices. However, this by itself means that all the data is stored on company servers. whether they are destroyed after the steel you do not need, or being reserved indefinitely, forming a digital fingerprint of your life? Obviously, last.

Passwords, history sites, search queries

Mobile version of Chrome is a good browser, which is happy to use very many. And if you use even a desktop version of the program, you get the opportunity to virtually seamless the transition between different devices, because all your data is automatically synchronized and are tightened. Yes, with the help of Google's servers, of course. This means that you, kindness, sharing all their passwords, interests and hobbies with a very curious now.

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The company is making very great efforts to promote its Google+ social service. Gradually, more and more products and services integrated for Google+, and not far off the time when you will no longer get out of the setting of the corresponding client. This means that all your fotochki will automatically be loaded to Google's servers, linked to your name and saved.

And what about the SMS and phone calls?

But with this as long as everything is in order. Using standard software, no data about your correspondence and conversation will not go. However, the latest version of Android 4.4 Kit Kat system in place the usual messaging system, has come Google Hangouts, so that the backup option is the history of your communication is already, I think, not for mountains. Solely for the convenience and safety of users, by itself.

Should we fear and what to do?

If you look objectively and call a spade a spade, it must be admitted that Google successfully building the most advanced global users for its tracking system. And if you are using a conventional computer we can somehow control the flow of data collected about us, with a mobile gadget that is always with us, it is much more difficult to handle. While most people comfort themselves with the familiar mantra: "I am a small man, to me nobody cares" and "I have nothing to hide", no one knows when and who will use your data. And for what purpose.

So it is better to keep the process under control and follow a few simple rules.

1. Clearly recognize that there is no privacy of any network, no life there. Every step you take can be recorded, calculated and sent to storage until a suitable opportunity.
2. Try not to use the products of one company. If you have a choice, give preference to third-party solutions.
3. Using Google products, not be lazy to go through the settings and turn off too intrusive option that violate your privacy.

In writing this article, I did not want to cast aspersions on Google, many of the services which he gladly use. Exactly the same story could be written about the iPhone or Windows Phone. But it so happened that Google services have a global reach, and the paternalism of this company is becoming increasingly strained. What do you say about this?