Deleting these apps may save your personal information getting into the wrong hands
Your iPhone knows a lot about your performed tasks even your calls and the messages you send, every step you take it keeps a close count on your every activity.
- Here are the seven iPhone apps that are breaching your privacy
- Facebook– Logging into Facebook, access all the information you provide and showing relevant ads. Users privacy and personal information at real risk.
- Flashlight App– Downloading a flashlight app is literally of no use. According to a 2014 report from Wired, most of them only exist to harvest your personal information for various marketing purposes.
- Weather Apps– For relevant forecasting weather apps needs location and here is it all the weather bug as it collects name, email address, or Zipcode, gender, date of birth and your interests.
- Google Maps– Maps are very useful but at the same time, as you signed in, Google knows where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re headed (if you use it for directions).
- Popular Games– Games like ‘Angry Birds’ have collected personal information and even leaked. National Security Agency hacked Angry Bird because its database of user information was so large.
- DoorDash– The App DoorDash operates in a similar manner of food delivering apps. The app sends a digital fingerprint that allows it to track you and that way it can re-target you based on the food you previously looked.
- Siri– In iPhone Siri is the personal companion that listens and responds to you. But recent reports suggest that Siri is not only listening when you talk to her but often even when you aren’t.
By: Shubham Sharma, Editorial Desk, DKODING Media
