Android. The first problems are announced at the beginning of 2019, and this is due to the fact that people matter too little to those who develop applications for phones and tablets that run on this operating system. More precisely, a study conducted on 34 of the most popular Android applications revealed that 20 of them transmit personal data of users to Facebook, without them knowing that the transfer is being made.
Android. Applications transmit all kinds of data, including information that identifies users as adults or children, which is illegal in the European Union, including Kayak, MyFitnessPal, or TripAdvisor. Of course, there are other popular applications for Android that steal users' data and send them to Facebook without anyone knowing what is happening, many of whom remain in this situation even today.
Android. FIRST PROBLEMS at the beginning of 2019
Android. Facebook recognized this problem, and announced that an update for the SDK used in applications will bring things back to normal, but of course many developers do not use it, and those who do claim that the problems are not solved. Android is currently the only platform where user data is stolen in this way by applications available to everyone, and this is due to the lack of restrictions to retrieve data from people's terminals.
The Privacy International campaign group found that at least 20 [apps] send certain data to Facebook in the second that they open in a phone, before [users] can be asked for permission. The information sent instantly includes the name of the application, the unique identification of the user with Google and the number of times the application was opened and closed since it was downloaded. Some, such as Kayak, the travel site, then send detailed information about people's flight searches to Facebook, including travel dates, if the user had children and what flights and destinations they had searched for.
Android. Unfortunately, in Google's platform it happens quite often that we see problems of this kind, and this is because what is included in the applications offered to users is not monitored very carefully. Unfortunately, this situation will not change very soon, and this is because application developers do not care much about users with the Android operating system, and if Apple did not closely monitor those who make applications for iOS, it would similar things happen with the iPhone.
