The high-level dependency on storing personal data in your personal smartphone has indirectly contributed towards the exponential rise in the breach of data and privacy. Encroaching upon personal space has always been carried out in secrecy in countries but for security reasons. Now, the scenario has changed. Knowingly or unknowingly mobile application development companies around the world have laid down individual data of the users on a silver platter. How this data is utilized from here is definitely a matter of later concern. For now, it is important to understand whether the applications stored in your phone is robbing you off your data or not? Also, this is a sheer responsibility of top mobile application development companies to safeguard the user data captured by their developed apps when seeking user permission to access their files on installation of the same app.
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Facebook has already under the radar pretty recently for data breach and stealing of users’ private information. Imagine for yourself, how would you feel if you come to know that your private moments are captured and witnessed live by strangers? This is what exactly is happening in the world of mobile technology. Our lives are no more private rather has opened to those who lurk behind technology barriers, secretly spying on us.
Encryption is the primary tool for data protection but a lack of proper strategy to manifest the same can be a costly affair. Mobile application developers have managed to occupy the central point of controversies each time. Example: Not long before the health and fitness applications came under the radar when news came up displaying the sensitive military areas when the fitness bands/wearables were worn by the users.
Have you ever wondered why these applications steal our personal data? Obviously to earn money! Mobile app development that offers services free of cost must have another medium to earn since they do not exist for charity. Advertisement and insurance companies are those who receive such data in secrecy and irrespective of the anonymity maintained on the ownership of the sold data, it is not that difficult to connect the dots and identify the person in concern.
80% of the applications track user location.
36% of the applications disclose user account details.
55% of the apps continuously track user location.
More than 70% smartphone apps report personal data to third-party trackers like Google Analytics.
How vulnerable are you in the digital world? And you have just seen a part of the scary picture.
Applications are also infamous for tracking the authentic phone number and a serial number is forwarded to the app vendors. A complete profile of the user is structured including user likes/dislikes, web surfing, places visited etc. Such valuable information is sold or used as they feel like. Very few applications care to the public their privy policies but in legal documents that any layman won’t read or understand.
Alphabet, the parent company for Google, is the owner of many tracking domains such as Google Analytics, which are responsible for collecting user data from more than 50% of the apps used by us.
What is scarier is often data collected are shipped to other countries including those that have questionable privacy laws. Afterall, their country laws do not protect users’ online identities.
Drawing inference from the above discussion
We can actually see that the users can barely protect their personal data from falling into the hands of wrongdoers. If permission to access files in user's phone is denied, the application may refuse to perform at all. It is the responsibility of top-rated mobile application development companies such as Fluper to adopt transparency and strong regulatory frameworks when dealing with user data. After all, the owners of data need to be provided with information on how their personality is utilized? The topic has endless points to discuss but one blog is not enough to accommodate all. Companies like Facebook and Google, the most trusted and frequently used platforms, must shoulder the responsibility of protecting user data from exploitation. Also, individuals, mobile developers can take the first initiative to acknowledge the users on the usage of their personal data captured.
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