How serious is it that app leaks personal privacy (will APP leak personal information)?

The investigation report shows that personal information leakage is quite serious now, and there are various ways and forms of information leakage. The proportion of personal information disclosure was 85.2%, exceeding 80%. According to the statistical results, the main way for consumers to disclose personal information is that operators collect personal information privately without their consent, and operators or criminals deliberately disclose, sell or illegally provide personal information to others.

At the same time, the excessive collection of personal information by mobile apps shows a general trend. The survey results show that there are many kinds of permissions that mobile app needs to obtain, the most prominent of which is to obtain location information and access contact rights; Moreover, the user's right to privacy is obtained when the function of the APP itself is unnecessary, which increases the risk of personal information disclosure.

The overall situation of personal information disclosure is more serious. The survey results show that the proportion of people who have experienced personal information disclosure is 85.2%, exceeding 80%. Common problems encountered after the disclosure of personal information include harassing sales calls or text messages, receiving fraudulent calls, receiving spam, etc.

Specifically, when consumers' personal information was leaked, about 86.5% of the respondents were harassed by sales calls or text messages, about 75.0% of the respondents received fraudulent calls, and about 63.4% of the respondents received spam, ranking the top three. In addition, some respondents have received illegal information such as illegal links, and what's more, personal account passwords have been stolen.

The survey results show that operators' unauthorized collection of personal information and intentional disclosure of information are the two main ways of personal information disclosure.

Among them, operators collect personal information without their consent, accounting for about 62.2% of the total sample; Operators or criminals intentionally disclose, sell or illegally provide personal information to others, accounting for about 60.6% of the total sample. In addition, there are loopholes in the network service system, resulting in the disclosure of personal information accounting for 57.4%. There are also criminals who use Trojan horses and phishing websites. The survey results show that when users install and use mobile apps, few people read the application permissions and user agreements or privacy policies, and most of them read them occasionally and never read them. Often read 18. 1%, often read 8.2%, sometimes read 16.4%, occasionally read 3 1.2%, and never read 26.2%.

The survey results show that among the 26.2% respondents who have never read the application permissions and user agreements or privacy policies, the main reason for choosing never to read them is that they can't use them without authorization, and they can only be forced to accept them, accounting for 6 1.2%. There are also 22.2% respondents who trust the APP operator, and 16.6% respondents think that the content of the APP user agreement is similar.

The survey results show that when installing and using mobile apps, the most common things are the right to read location information and the right to access contacts, accounting for 86.8% and 62.3% respectively.

The proportion of respondents who were asked to read phone records (47.5%), read short message records (39.3%), turn on cameras (39.3%) and record microphones (24.6%) was relatively high.

The survey results show that respondents believe that promoting advertisements is the most important reason for mobile apps to collect personal information, accounting for 77.0%. Other reasons are selling and exchanging personal information (45.9%), tapping users' habits and providing better services (42.6%) and fraud and theft (24.6%).