315 Party APP information collection, where do your harassing calls come from?

It seems that since the beginning of mobile phones, people have received some strange harassing calls. With the development of the times, can people find that there seem to be more and more harassing calls and they are becoming more and more targeted? One of my colleagues recently received seven or eight harassing calls in a row, all of which were from people selling cars to him. He himself felt very strange. Where did these harassing calls come from? How did these people know he was planning a car? In fact, these harassing calls are made through the APP on the mobile phone. 1. APP steals personal information

With the development of the times, mobile phones have become people’s life assistants from the past for making calls and sending and receiving text messages. People use various APPs on their mobile phones to purchase goods and communicate with friends. Communicate, view relevant information, etc. Everyone who owns a smartphone has dozens of different APPs on his phone. However, when we use these APPs frequently and never pay attention to them, whether the APP has What about high security?

In fact, when you perform relevant operations, your relevant personal information has been sent to the third-party platform. This information includes your contact information and the address you need to provide. Service content, chat content between you and customer service, and even some apps will steal your personal account information on your phone, as well as your phone book and contacts on QQ and WeChat, including verification codes for online transactions.

After combining this information, you can know where you live, who is in your family, what you like to eat, what your travel routes are, what your hobbies are, and what you have done recently. What friends do you have and how much money is in your bank account? Do you feel uneasy when you see this? It's like being watched by others, SDK steals personal information

SDK is a plug-in that provides certain functions or services in mobile software. Many APP SDKs are produced by third-party companies. Many The SDK development company is doing some shady things behind the scenes. In 2019, the Shanghai Consumer Rights Protection Committee commissioned a third party to conduct testing and found that some SDKs had hidden mysteries. Some SDKs stole consumption without the user's permission. Some personal privacy information in the user's mobile phone, according to the "Information Technology Security, Basic Specifications for the Collection of Personal Information by Mobile Internet Applications" and "Methods for Identification of Illegal Collection and Use of Personal Information by APPs" promulgated by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standardization Administration of China 》Provisions, technical staff tested the relevant APPs.

In some APPs, plug-ins belonging to Shanghai Krypton Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Zhaocai Wangwang Information Technology Co., Ltd. were found. This Both plug-ins exist and are suspected of secretly stealing user privacy without the user's knowledge. These data include contact call records, text message content, installed application list, device information, information location, involving Gome Yika and Midea air conditioner remote control. There are more than 50 mobile apps such as browsers, dynamic wallpapers, recipes, etc. After reading this information, they will also quietly send this information to a certain place and store it quietly. Beijing's Zhaocaiwangwang Information Technology Co., Ltd. can also steal users' more private information through related APPs. Do you have a creepy feeling when you see this?

And if this information is used with ulterior motives, If someone obtains it, they will receive targeted harassing calls. If the online transaction verification code and related information generated by the bank are obtained by others, it will cause economic losses. Since the SDK is universal for APPs, when a When software is suspected of stealing user information, it will cause problems for a large number of APPs

In addition, it has also been found that some relatively large APPs are also suspected of stealing personal user information, such as cool ringtones and mobile phone ringtones. , a collection of mobile ringtones, a collection of spark calls, a collection of ringtones, and many other software.

In the eyes of some unscrupulous merchants, personal information is Tang Monk Meat. To them, the more Han Xin orders, the better. In the face of these unscrupulous merchants, we should use the APP with caution and try to be as formal as possible. Channels to download related APPs.