'Privacy has become a luxury' as low-income individuals are forced to buy affordable Androids

guest · Oct 9, 2019

'Privacy has become a luxury' as low-income individuals are forced to buy affordable Androids that are a hackers dream
October 8, 2019
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...ed-buy-affordable-Androids-hackers-dream.html

A privacy advocacy group has found that cheap Android smartphones, specifically the $17 MYA2Phone, are vulnerable to hackers and data scraping companies.
The analysis of the affordable phones comes from Privacy International, a non-profit that challenges governments and companies when it comes to tacking the public via technology, which found that these specific handset are an open window for hackers and a data mining companies dream, according to FastCompany.

The Androids are not able to support the latest operating system, so they do not have the strongest digital security to keep cybertheives at bay.
Because the MYA2, like most affordable Androids, is equip with an outdated version of the operating system and is unable to update because of the out-of-date heardware.
Hindering users from the luxury of having privacy.

Privacy International states: 'for those who live in the data wild west and can only afford cheap phones as their sole way to access the internet, we're now also seeing that privacy is becoming a luxury that few can afford.'
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