United States
government took strict actions against privacy violations of smart phones
applications users, FTC (Federal trade Commission) fined the penalty to the famous social networking company Path Inc $8
million ($800000) due to its violations of the user privacies.
My dear readers you
don’t know there are so many companies and social networking sites which are
playing with you like a ball. They are stealing your privacy and using it for
some others reasons against their privacy statements. Most of the social
networking sites users don’t like to read such a huge documents called User
Agreement and Privacy statement. If you take some time please read it, there
you can find that your privacy can not be used for any other purposes and will
not be used by any third party. But unfortunately nobody is monitoring the sites
that how truly are that true? How to know whether our privacy is used by third
party or not? How to know that who among website officials and management is
viewing and not stealing our data? This was the issue with only social
networking site while, here is another point.
We use smart phones and
we download various types of applications for and use it regularly. Everybody
know most of the applications need to get access to some extent of your
personal information before full using! So, this is the big technique used to
get into user privacy. This really violates user agreements and the user doesn’t
know anything that whets behind the screen.
My dear readers, you
must know that in the field of smart phones 91% market share is the hand of
Google and Apple!
FTC is now monitoring
Google and Apple’s all applications which are offered with their smart phones.
FTC is trying their best to find out that how much user privacy is violated by
Google and Apple. Its might be possible that Google and Apple will be fined
with huge penalty soon. This will be a good sign for consumers that after fines
and penalties those all of companies will be aware of user agreements and
privacy policies and will not let any further issue to raise due to use of
their applications.
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