.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.
