Since smartphones came out, we also come across different different mobile apps. All mobile applications can reach the videos we watch and even our current location, keep it from the website news we read. Most of us don't read the privacy policies when downloading mobile apps and click the “I agree” button.
Many applications earn money based on analytics and social network integration and work with third-party companies. So they often collect the data and sell it to third party companies to make money on our personal data. Thus, the confidentiality of personal data is eliminated.
Personal data is all information belonging to a natural person whose identity is specific or identifiable. It is essential to have a real person in the middle so that personal data can be mentioned. The data of the legal entity are located outside the personal data. The information mentioned here is name, surname, date of birth, place of birth, telephone number, vehicle license plate, tc number, social security number, passport number, resume, picture, image, voice recordings, fingerprints, email address, family and health information.
The two-year study, co-authored by Mozilla member rishab nithyanand, explores exactly where third-party trackers collect personal data and what they know about us.
The research is titled "apps, trackers, privacy and regulators: a global study of the mobile tracking ecosystem”. “This is the beginning of a long project to uncover all the secret data collection and dissemination practices on the internet,” explains Nithyanand.
“There is a huge lack of transparency in how mobile apps behave about personal data,” adds narseo vallina-rodriguez, co-author and researcher at ICSI. “people install software, but they don't know what that software does." obviously not all of us know what data we share when installing an application.
We don't know who gets the data we share and what it is used for.
The introduction of the written article does not bring up healthy events. In order to facilitate the services of third parties, data is collected in mobile applications beyond what is needed. To investigate this incident, they used lumen privacy monitor, the ndroid app, for about two years. This tool, which can be downloaded from Google play, allows all users to monitor the traffic of other mobile applications and see which ones receive personal data or not.
The team identified a total of 2,121 viewers — 233 of whom were previously unknown to popular advertising and tracking blacklists. These trackers collected personal data such as android IDs, phone numbers, device fingerprints, and mac addresses.
According to the information obtained, it is now quite easy to intercept our personal data. National and international laws on the protection of personal data can prevent this to some extent, but it is in our power to protect personal data. If you want your mobile app to protect personal data and get the explicit consent of your users, contact us! [email protected]
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