Are you going to wear FaceApp? You use these applications, and when it comes to privacy, they are even worse

I am happy about the media storm around FaceApp , although it has no major basis. After all, the application has existed for years and there is not any particular appetite for our privacy. These programs are much worse. Maybe it's time to pay attention to it.

FaceApp warns us that the photos we use to make it older can be passed on to the company's partners. In other words, each photo we throw into the application for processing can then be used in almost any way by practically any entity. In addition, the application itself is equipped with telemetry mechanisms. Shocking? Rightly. We should not accept this.

Unfortunately, most of us do it on the agenda, using services that significantly affect our privacy. We are afraid that the advertising partner FaceAppa will add our photo to the ad for herpes ointment, while in the meantime we clearly have no problem with the services that follow - and in fact literally - every step we take, informing about each service provider.

Google Maps on default settings is something much worse than FaceApp

In my opinion, Google Maps is the best service of its kind, basically having no real competition. It is not only great, but also free. Although, as always happens in such cases, we pay a price for it.

Google Maps uses your default settings to record and save every step we take. If you do not believe, look in your Google Account and check your location history . If only to catch us later, let us fill out the survey about the restaurant we visited. You can turn it off and continue to use the application, but this will keep us busy and encourage us to re-enable tracking services, tempting us with additional features.

Are you worried about FaceApp? Google knows what you do and where you are every day, uses and processes this information. Some of this information - though not directly and after the analytics - goes to Google's advertising partners.

Facebook Messenger and Google Chrome - because you are the product

The most popular communicator in the world and the most popular browser in the world allow for some adjustment of the level of spying by their creators. On the default settings, both applications basically act as wiretaps. Chrome sends Google the history of websites we visit so that we can display ads from our partners in our services, which somehow connect with what we've read.

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Facebook Messenger is to be better protected in the future, but until now it was a product that did not offer any method of encrypting conversations. After all, encryption would prevent Facebook from reading the content of our private chats. Also, his partners would reach us with better ads.

Almost every free VPN

I wanted to write "everyone", but maybe there is a noble service provider I do not know. Using free VPNs can also protect our privacy from entities such as our Internet service provider or service operator with whom we connect. The problem is that the operators of free VPNs sell information about the history of websites visited by our partners. Most of them are suspicious companies from China. Do you want to use VPN? Pay, or it does not make sense.

Almost everything that is free. Quizzes, games and flashlights ...

Not counting enthusiasts and very few Famous Brands, most of the free applications make money on spying on the Internet. After all, building and maintaining such an application costs huge amounts of money, and there are very few exceptions. You do not believe? Let the imagination of the cult Angry Birds game, which collected and passed on to the publisher information about our telephone number, history of voice connections, our location, political sympathies, sexual orientation, and marital status. Tracking cookies in the ads served by the game were enough.

Unfortunately, there is no easy answer to the question of how to protect yourself against it. It is definitely worth carefully assigning permissions to our data. I would like to add that it is worth reading the regulations and licenses, but I do not expect from you that you will suddenly start to read multi-page documents in a foreign language with legal terminology for each application.

The last three Big IT Brands that still do not treat their users as products and which still mean a lot in consumer IT are Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla. These three companies still believe that the protection of privacy in their products and services is one of their greatest strengths that attracts users to them. The rest ... well. Spying is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid. And I assure you: FaceApp is innocent compared to what a typical Flashlight type application from the Google Play Store does.



Are you going to wear FaceApp? You use these applications, and when it comes to privacy, they are even worse

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