PrivacyBreacher

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We recently discovered this application and we are so enthusiastic about it that we immediately wanted to write a review. And not because it is an app that is somehow useful for everyday life it's not even a fundamental alternative. On the contrary, PrivacyBreacher does nothing!

In what sense does it do nothing? PrivacyBreacher was born as an app"Proof of Concept” can be translated into Italian as “demonstration of feasibility“. It means that it is an app designed only to demonstrate some important concepts related to the privacy problem on Android.

PrivacyBreacher: Android and the privacy sieve

In fact, this app allows you to see very easily what the applications you install can do without any explicit authorization being requested. In fact the only permission he asks for PrivacyBreacher is to be able to run in the background. Despite this we discover some really interesting things.

For example we find that any application installed on our Android can:

• Discover what time did we turn the screen off and on of the telephone
• Discover when we attached or removed the charger they earphones
• TO which we have now turned off our smartphone
• Login to lots of information relating to our device as a model etc
• Hold Track WiFi usage and of mobile data used
• A complete list of installed applications on our mobile phone
• Build a 3D visual model based on our movements

Ok, that's pretty clear how disturbing it is all of this? Any application installed on our Android can display all the information above without asking us anything. Here because we repeat in continuation of do not install rubbish, Of do not install random applications and of always look for an alternative Open source with free code open to all.

This application does nothing wrong and does not collect any of our data, but it is designed to show us what and how much can be recorded about us without the slightest authorization.

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