So do you just love your Smart phone? Do you love to download all those cool apps that are available?
Well you are one of the millions that do.
But a little warning. Seems Facebook's app then allows them to read your text messages you send.
Oh and youtube's app allows them to access your camera and take photos and videos when they want to!
All of this without ever telling you they are doing it or disclosing to you that they have done it.
You keep your phone by your bed? Imagine the videos youtube might be getting. You take it in the bathroom with you? You take it into important meetings? The list goes on and on about the invasion of privacy, besides the type of videos and pictures they are getting of you and your family or anything you do.
But did you read the small print when you downloaded that app?
Seems Facebook has been having no problem spying on people and what texts they have sent out.
From the Australian Herald:
Facebook admitted reading text messages belonging to smartphone users who downloaded the social-networking app and said that it was accessing the data as part of a trial to launch its own messaging service, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
Other well-known companies accessing smartphone users' personal data - such as text messages - include photo-sharing site Flickr, dating site Badoo and Yahoo Messenger, the paper said.
It claimed that some apps even allow companies to intercept phone calls - while others, such as YouTube, are capable of remotely accessing and operating users' smartphone cameras to take photographs or videos at any time.
I do not have a smart phone nor do I want one. If people are smart they will get rid of all their "cool" apps as once it is downloaded you have given permission to that company to access all your personal information.
Who knows what type of pictures have been taken of you if you have a smart phone and downloaded youtube's app?
ARE YOU OUTRAGED YET?
As someone mentioned to me. You don't even have to have a smart phone, someone else with one that you are around, an app can be videoing what you are doing and saying.
