Study Reveals a Confused View of Mobile Phone Privacy and Security

[Dermot7]

Smartphones store a wealth of valuable personal data—photos, videos, e-mail, texts, app data, GPS locations, and Web browsing habits—that is increasingly falling into the hands of advertisers, app makers, law enforcement, and crooks.

A survey published recently by the University of California, Berkeley, law researchers suggests there is a significant disconnect between many people's perception of the security and privacy of data on their smartphones, and the reality.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...-mobile-phone/

[x942]

Good read. If you want privacy on your phone I recommend reading: https://guardianproject.info/blog/

Especially the post from Hope9 (https://guardianproject.info/2012/07...roid-security/)


I personally use CyanoGen mod with Full Disk Encryption and no google apps (Use F-Droid instead). This gives security and privacy as the OS is Open Source and the device is encrypted (Defeats the Law enforcement issue).

[Noob]

Interesting article.

[Dermot7]

Will add this here, rather than new thread, but mods please change this if best.

One reason that smartphones and smartphone apps are so useful is that they can integrate intimately with our personal lives. But that also puts our personal data at risk.

A new service called Mobilescope hopes to change that by letting a smartphone user examine all the data that apps transfer, and alerting him when sensitive information, such as his name or e-mail address, is transferred.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...ing-your-data/

[mhf]

Yes it's an interesting article but the funny side is that when visiting that page I had 10 trackers flagged in my browser !