Android is the most used operating system for mobile phones, but unfortunately there are also a number of very serious problems that can be exploited by hackers at the moment. Today we're talking about one that was discovered in Android, and that allowed some phone applications to access user data without them knowing, containing information about the locations they passed through, but they weren't limited to that. .
Android had a series of changes implemented by the Google company to help people quickly find out if there is any risk of having come into contact with a person infected with the new Coronavirus. We are talking about a series of APIs that recorded the locations through which we moved, the data could be compared with those of people who declared in their Android phones that they were infected, and those who physically crossed paths with them were notified of the situation.
Android: Extremely Serious Hidden Problem in Phones
Android had correctly implemented this system by Google, but the third-party applications that were originally thought to not work exactly correctly, they store people's sensitive information in an unprotected format. The respective data were left undeleted in the Android system logs, and unfortunately some of the applications pre-installed in the phones had the native permission to access that information, implicitly also those regarding the locations through which people passed.
Android has here again a problem that is based on applications with inappropriate implementations of technologies from Google, and unfortunately we can talk about tens of millions of people who have vulnerable data, or maybe more. Those from Google have nothing to do here because the problem is not with them, but with those who make the applications that should tell people if they have come into contact with another person who has been confirmed as infected with the new Coronavirus.
Android has no way of having the problem solved except by those who make these applications, so it remains to be seen to what extent things will become safer in the future.
