The researchers of the Cybernews selected 50 applications of the most well-known Android on the Google Play Store and the analysis of the Manifesto, revealing at least 41 the permission of the dangerous you can put them in danger privacy to the users. One of the applications of the worst are the ones from the Disease. The worst thing in absolute terms is carried out by a service provider of indian.
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Google + recommend to the developers to reduce the number to a minimum, requiring only the things that are essential to the operation to the correct application. Despite this, 50 applications, the most popular in the Play Store, require the a range of the amount of constructionsome of which allow them to collect sensitive data.
At the top of the screen is The MyJio: For Everything Jio. The app offers multiple services, but the demands of the 29 permits, including those for access to microphone, camera, calendar, files, and geographical location. Followed by WhatsApp (26 of license), Truecaller (24), Google + Messages (23), WhatsApp Business (23), Facebook (22), and Instagram (19). At the bottom of the screen are mainly of the games, including the Among Us (0 license), Candy Crash Saga (1 license), and the Clash of Clans (2 of the license).
A license is the most requested (47 applications of 50 and is to send notifications. The seemingly harmless, it can also be used for the sending of advertising unwanted and phishing. Also at the top are the permissions to access storage, camera and microphone. More than half of the apps (26) may keep track of the exact location (within 10 meters).
Applications can be more of a desire to be given are those of communication and social media. Among the applications, the more reliable is the Netflix, because it only requires 4 in a communications, in writing to the storage, record the audio and the Bluetooth connection). The researchers of the Cybernews to recommend the revocation of permits, the more threatening the privacy and the implementation of a single application and, indeed, necessary.
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