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Some mobile apps are designed to steal personal data
By Zhao Wen |
November 6, 2012, Tuesday
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MOBILE phone users are warned against music and video applications as a survey showed more than 40 percent of the respondents reported information leak through mobile applications.
The survey, conducted by China Youth Daily and Daguu.com, interviewed 4,381 verified users across China. More than 90 percent of them are in their 20s and 30s with keen interest in new digital products and fancy functions of mobile applications.
The survey said 41.7 percent of the respondents lost their personal information through mobile apps. Among all types of information, phone numbers leaked the most because some applications can secretly copy the phone user's address book for sale to some seedy businesses that send junk mails or make scam calls.
The survey found that 40.7 percent of the respondents never read authorization agreements carefully after downloading an application and 35.6 percent of the respondents had a low level of risk awareness when using mobile applications.
"Mobile phone users are more focused on functions of applications than on information security," Jia Chunfu, director of the information security department with Nankai University in Tianjin, told China Youth Daily.
"As a result, application developers pay more attention to new functions and care less about the security issue of their applications," Jia said.
The survey, conducted by China Youth Daily and Daguu.com, interviewed 4,381 verified users across China. More than 90 percent of them are in their 20s and 30s with keen interest in new digital products and fancy functions of mobile applications.
The survey said 41.7 percent of the respondents lost their personal information through mobile apps. Among all types of information, phone numbers leaked the most because some applications can secretly copy the phone user's address book for sale to some seedy businesses that send junk mails or make scam calls.
The survey found that 40.7 percent of the respondents never read authorization agreements carefully after downloading an application and 35.6 percent of the respondents had a low level of risk awareness when using mobile applications.
"Mobile phone users are more focused on functions of applications than on information security," Jia Chunfu, director of the information security department with Nankai University in Tianjin, told China Youth Daily.
"As a result, application developers pay more attention to new functions and care less about the security issue of their applications," Jia said.
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