What if the app needs mobile phone information?

What is 1? Does APP need permission to read SMS and MMS?

Because consumers can't use these APP clients normally if they don't authorize the permission of address book or SMS MMS, the permission they require is mandatory.

More is to collect users' economic status, consumption preferences, activity areas and other information. , and make detailed portraits of users to support product development and update, or accurately push advertisements.

So when installing the software, it will show what permissions you will get. If these permissions are not what we want to open, we will stop the installation. For example, some software wants to get our information records, which has nothing to do with using these software.

Extended data

In reality, we often face such problems. When installing an App, we will automatically obtain personal information, such as precise positioning, address book, sending text messages and so on. , no user's choice. Personal information excessively collected by such apps can easily be exploited by hackers to develop location software, which is also the real source of information leakage.

2065438+On August 23rd, 2008, Jiangsu Consumers Association issued a press conference on "Mobile phone application infringes on consumers' personal information security". On-site software testing shows that mobile phones have downloaded more than 100 mobile phone applications, of which 79 applications can obtain location rights.

In terms of SMS and MMS, 23 applications can send SMS directly to contacts in the address book, and 96 applications can send MMS directly. Click on "Phone and Contacts", and there are 14 applications that can monitor and hang up the phone. It is worth mentioning that among all the personal information obtained, "location information" and "reading address book and short message" are the easiest to read.