People who often use mobile phones may once feel that the applications they install on their mobile phones will sleep peacefully when they are not in use, right?
However, since millet recorded the application behaviors one by one, and it was discovered in the MIUI that they would not be honest. Staying, but all show their magical powers and rack their brains to obtain the user's private data.
Since MIUI added this feature, some other Android phone manufacturers have gradually added this feature to their phones, and have received various shock expressions from users: It turns out that it has read private information thousands of times without knowing it!
Unfortunately, iOS has never added the application behavior recording function. Fortunately, with the recent appearance of an app, the "small actions" of the iPhone app have nowhere to hide. Every act of reading the user's private information can also be recorded one by one.
"Privacy Insight",Insight into all small actions
The name of this app is very straightforward, it's called "Privacy Insight". Looking at the version history, we can find that this is a brand new application that has been online for less than a month, but it is now the 20th most popular application in the tool application list.
This is enough to reflect the importance of mobile phone users to personal privacy and the distrust of application developers.
However, if you want to read app behavior records through this app, it can’t be as simple as an Android phone.
First of all, we need to update the mobile phone to the latest version of the system, because the old system does not have the function of recording App activities, so we cannot export privacy reports for us to view. In addition, even if it is the latest version of the system, we still need to import the report from the system into the application to achieve it, and the operation is still a bit cumbersome.
First, we need to open the settings in the phone and find the "Privacy" option.
In this option,We need to open "Record App Activity" and import App activity data into the Privacy Insight App.
After that, we can check which apps are secretly behind us.
But as mentioned above, the most regrettable part of this app is that its convenience is not so high. Not only does the user need to manually open the App activity record, but every time the record is imported, it also needs to be executed manually, which is very troublesome. hope this operation can be made easier in the future.
However, the complicated operation did not affect the enthusiasm of users. Everyone still pays great attention to their privacy. How can you see it?
▲ At 4 pm, the ranking has risen to 19
2p Ranked 20th on the tool application rankings, with almost no publicity, only 4 hours later,Its ranking rose to 19.
It can be seen that iPhone users also have a very high demand for application activity records.
When checking the app details, Xiao Hei also saw a comment, saying that watching this app will make people feel disgusting the more they look. So, what is it that made this user make such a comment?
Some apps like to jump up and down _strong68_strongp
Decided to use my mobile phone to test it myself.
test objects include WeChat, Taobao, Alipay, Weibo, Douyin and other popular or commonly used applications. First of all, Xiao Hei returns to the desktop after opening these applications, leaving the phone to stand for 30 minutes without closing the applications running in the background, and then check the small actions of these applications.
The answer surprised Xiao Hei.In a limited time, these apps tried to locate and read photos in the background, which made Xiaohei feel less secure.
▲ Why does Dianping frequently obtain Xiaohei's positioning?
In the second round of testing, Xiao Hei chose Weibo and Douyin. After using them for 10 minutes, we can see how their activities are different.
First of all, it is Weibo. In 10 minutes of use, Weibo did not frequently read Xiaohei's information, and the only record was only to apply for location permissions.
On the surface, the user information read by Douyin at runtime seems to be too close to that of Weibo.
But in actual use, Xiao Hei discovered a strange phenomenon: in the process of Xiao Hei, continuous positioning information is not interrupted. Read. The evidence is that the "locate" icon in the upper left corner is always displayed.
The same situation. It can be seen that your location information is a "competitive place" for various applications, and it is also an important part of the user's big data portrait.
Although iPhone users are also faced with endless "small actions" in the application, , but compared to their Android "comrades", these are really just small things.
Xiao Hei picked up the Huawei Glory phone that his friend used daily, and checked the permission access records in the phone. The result surprised Xiao Hei.
In just seven days, the two popular apps Meituan and Douyin have visited more than 2,000 times to read the location information. Storage space multiple times. Even apps like have accessed 99 phone messages.
On average, Meituan and Douyin need to read location information and storage space hundreds of times a day. According to the little partner, she has set up to allow location information to be read during use. Under such precautionary measures, these applications are still so "rampant" to obtain our privacy, which can not help but make Xiao Hei suspicious of us again. Can I make good use of my phone?
What else can we do to protect personal privacy?
In order to better protect personal privacy, Xiao Hei chose a relatively "niche" road: uninstall all unnecessary applications-especially domestic applications.
Therefore, in the case of not doing the test, the friends can hardly find applications like Douyin, Weibo, or even on Xiaohei's phones. If you really want to find information and watch the news, Xiaohei usually chooses the web terminal. This makes it much more difficult for the platform to directly obtain Xiaohei's information.
▲ If it is not for winter, there is no Taobao in Xiao Hei’s phone, but there is no Taobao in his mobile phone _span2br
0This method should not be suitable for most users. After all, most users nowadays use Douyin and Weibo when they are idle. The days without these applications are simply unbearable for them.
In this case, we can also adjust the settings and daily usage habits to improve our privacy and security.
First of all, as Xiaohei mentioned before, for some sensitive permissions, we can set the option of "allow only when in use" to make it difficult for apps to sneak small actions in the background.
In addition, we do not need to manually enter the settings to close the permissions that are not used for applications, such as music applications. You can turn off this permission, or only allow the application to use selected pictures. Prohibiting apps from using accurate locations is a setting that Xiaohei often adjusts.
In addition, there are some options that we can turn off. Take WeChat as an example. Among the functions such as "local network" and "Bluetooth", their function is generally to connect to local devices or Bluetooth accessories.
Since Xiao Hei does not have a Bluetooth accessory paired with WeChat,WeChat will not be used for multimedia delivery, so these two functions, Xiaohei, are directly closed after installation.
Xiao Hei guessed that the reason why the application was so quiet in the previous test is precisely because Xiao Hei turned off these permissions in daily use.
However, the above fellow also pays attention to the application permissions when using the mobile phone, but why there are so many private reading records?
▲ The mobile phone of the friend has restricted the application permissions _p1br
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p_span7 Get location information", the app will still try to get location information in the background. A better method is to remove the app from the background when it is not needed, and completely cut off the hidden dangers of the app from engaging in small actions.
Although according to the official statement of apple , this will consume battery performance, but in the face of privacy, these small things should be concessions.
At the same time that this app received users’ love,An engineer from Meituan, who is the party involved in the incident and was exposed to various background actions, said: This privacy recording application is developed overseas, and it is recommended to download it with caution.
Seeing this news, Xiao Hei couldn’t help but laugh out loudly: We should be cautious about downloading overseas apps that help us protect our privacy, but we should download and use more domestic apps that infringe our privacy. NS?
Source: Pixabay, in-app screenshot
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