Last year, Germany has baned sales of children’s smartwatches because they think that children’s smartwatches can steal people’s privacy, for example it can send your location information and monitor the sound of the surrounding environment.
Not long ago in China, A survey shows that 60% financial Android APP will collect user’s property identity information without user’s agreement in 200 financial Android APP. The will steal a large amount of personal sensitive information include account information, loan and repayment information, insurance information, mobile phone operator information and so on.
More than that, A report in 2017 shows that 96.6% Anddroid APP will collect user’s privacy, like KingRoot. In iOS, it is 69.3%. 25.3% of Android apps get the authority to access to user’s mobile phone privacy without user’s permission. All these are the challenges to our privacy right, are the first data sources for cybercrime. Based on the analysis and utilization of these data, it is possible to brewing terrible criminal.
These events told us, though APP of smart device can bring us convenience, they still dangerous to our lives. Especially now, big data has develop so quickly, our privacy data appear more important to both us and business.
Here is another story, Some one goes to meeting regularly at a city, he likes check in to a same hotel. Once he checked in at a normal price, he found that the price of other people was lower than him. Later he discovered that there are some discounts, but in his account it display the original price instead of the discounted price on his subscription page.
Why? Because big data analysis know that he will check in this hotel at same time per month, So no discounts for him.
How to protect our privacy on the internet? I think it’s not just install antivirus.
First, don’t install unknown APPs and software.
Second, good surfing habits.
Third, surfing with famous VPN.
On Android, there are three lists you can refer.
1. About IP leaking of VPN service.
2.About VPN logging policies.
3.About the surfing speed of VPN service.
