Unscrupulous App Developers Steal From Us Daily

Some folks have been warning us about apps and malware on all our digital devices… including our phones… Well, the following report link is a MUST WATCH for anyone and everyone who has or wants to put a flashlight app on their cell phone. PLEASE listen to this! 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8xz8xKEFvU

This is a pandemic situation and there is only one way to stop it. Don’t use apps that ask for permissions that have no real relationship to the services that the apps claim to provide. There is no legitimate reason for any digital device user to grant unnecessary permissions to any app developer or seller! Unscrupulous developers' apps, that harvest vast amounts of private information and data, are potentially more threatening than Ebola, aids, vehicle crashes, gang wars, and cancer all rolled together, given the different types of damage that information thieves can do to individuals, families, communities, and businesses.

If you want to protect yourself, your family, your friends, and your communities, you can take control of your life and devices by refusing to install spying apps on your devices. You can find out which apps do this kind of spying (if they abide by full disclosure), if you read the permissions lists that are supposed to be displayed when you hit the install button, and before you finalize authorization of the app download. 

Unless the function of a specific app is to help you with one or more of these areas of use on your digital device, there is virtually ZERO need for that app to know or access your location, your device ID, history, WIFI connection, financial info, online purchases, camera, phone calls, contact list, files, sd card data, or a host of other things that many of the malicious apps collect in order to spy on you and profit from your personal data.

Protect yourself, your family, and your community from spyware and malware by reading the app permissions prior to installing any app. If you aren’t 100% sure about the implications and appropriateness of what an app does and the kind of info it collects, then call your digital device's service provider for help figuring out how much of your privacy the app is asking you to give up for their own use or profit. 

To identity thieves, unscrupulous app developers, and hackers, you and your information are a commodity to be exploited and traded for profit. Don't willingly or ignorantly set yourself up so that they, like coyotes and buzzards, can pick you and your loved ones clean to satisfy their own bellies.