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I can understand that Google Maps may need my location info (in order to give me the best service, of course), but why would a flashlight app do the same?

From your experience which mobile app you use (or used) collects the most private information or requires excessive privileges?

in Smartphone Apps & Music by klaszlo13

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.We strongly believe Whatsapp is if not the most intrusive application there is, aside from Google Play. Aside from all the permission this application requires, we've tested an application against Whatsapp just to find out it takes snapshots and sends them to some random cloud location.  This has happened at least 3 times in a time span of no less than 2 weeks.

Whatsapp requires access to all of the following:

Read phone status and identity

Receive text messages

Send SMS messages

Take pictures and videos (See what I mean? We’ve confirmed this to be true)

Record audio (If you can record audio to send a friend, what stops MS to use this app to snoop on you?

Approximate location (network based)

Precise location via GPs network based

Modify your contacts

Read your own contact card

Modify of delete the contents of your USB storage and read them

Add remove accounts, create accounts and set passwords, find accounts on device, read Google service configuration

User account on the device

Connect and disconnect from Wifi

Full network access

Google Play billing service and like 25 different other permissions which I just didn’t want to type.

So there, beware of this application. Use it under a VPN at all times.


 

We strongly believe Whatsapp is if not the most intrusive application there is, aside from Google Play. Aside from all the permission this application requires, we've tested an application against Whatsapp just to find out it takes snapshots and sends them to some random cloud location.  This has happened at least 3 times in a time span of no less than 2 weeks.

Whatsapp requires access to all of the following:

Read phone status and identity

Receive text messages

Send SMS messages

Take pictures and videos (See what I mean? We’ve confirmed this to be true)

Record audio (If you can record audio to send a friend, what stops MS to use this app to snoop on you?

Approximate location (network based)

Precise location via GPs network based

Modify your contacts

Read your own contact card

Modify of delete the contents of your USB storage and read them

Add remove accounts, create accounts and set passwords, find accounts on device, read Google service configuration

User account on the device

Connect and disconnect from Wifi

Full network access

Google Play billing service and like 25 different other permissions which I just didn’t want to type.

So there, beware of this application. Use it under a VPN at all times.

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