Beware! Your smartphone could be snooping on you
While smartphones are the epitome of modern convenience, these devices which store our personal and professional information like emails, photos, bank details etc. can easily fall prey to hackers and to other malicious activities. With the recent series of data breaches across businesses globally, the concern regarding protecting user data has become more relevant than before. There are many applications in your smartphones that access your private data by taking permissions through pop-ups or otherwise. You would notice apps like third-party applications, flashlights, etc. asking permissions to access your gallery, messages, calls, which they don’t need. Allowing these third-party applications access to your smartphone's data puts your information at risk. Hardip Singh, Executive Director, Optiemus Infracom, feels that the dirty little secret that these ubiquitous devices, which we have with us 24X7, and keep switched on for most of the time, is also a serious threat to our privacy. An innocent looking message could be all that is needed to compromise on your privacy — accessing your microphone, your call logs, your locations, your bank details and everything that is very personal to you. Here’s why:
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