Apple Ready Removing Applications No Privacy Friendly

Apple revoke applications that collect personal data for violating the company's privacy policies of online stores, general IT giant was quoted as saying by AFP. Manufacturer iPhone was an announcement a day after researchers found hundreds of applications that use a Chinese advertising software that extract "users that personal information can be identified." Apple ensures that discovery Monday. "We have identified a group of applications that use third-party advertising SDK (software development kit), made Youmi, a provider of mobile advertising, which collect private information such as email addresses user and device identifiers and routes the data to a server company," said Apple AFP , "This is a violation of our privacy and security guidelines. Applications that use the SDK Youmi will be removed from the App Store and any new applications submitted to the App Store using this SDK will ditolaj. "We're hand in hand with the developers in helping us updated versions of their applications are safe for consumers and comply with our guidelines." Apple does not allow third party applications to share user data without isin from the user, and reject applications that require users to share personal informsi, such as email address or date of birth. Researchers at the company's mobile analytic SourceDNA claimed to have found hundreds of applications that extract personal information and called it the first time they see the iOS app made it through the application review process. "But based on what we learned, this is not the last." The researchers found 256 applications dunduh one million times from version Youmi that violate user privacy. "Most developers are located in China. We believe the developers of these applications do not realize it because the SDK bentu transmitted in binary, blur, and user info is uploaded to the server Youmi." Via : Tempo