Games are the most invade privacy – TVI24

More and more applications online games (apps) collect unnecessary data on users as location, contact list, call log, email, among others. Children are the most affected in this invasion of privacy, concludes a study by Carnegie Mellon.

The game “Happy Fish” was considered more harmful as it was programmed to acquire location, photos and read cell phone text messages. The list also appear the games’ Fruit Ninja ‘,’ Angry Birds’, ‘Despicable Me’, ‘My Talking Tom’, ‘Subway Surfers “or” Drag Racing “.

“These advertisers are trying to get more specific information about users, so they can personalize more targeted ads,” confirmed Jason Hong, founder of PrivacyGrade.org and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon The Daily Mail.

The PrivacyGrade.org site assigns letters from A + to D games, with A + classification that most threatens the privacy settings of users and D that requires less knowledge of your personal information.

“Most people expect that Apps as Google Maps have access to your location, but most are surprised accessing games to its location,” said Hong.

However, the issue of privacy is reflected not only in apps. In 2013 the social network Path was fined to pay $ 800,000 (about 680,000 euros) to collect the phone numbers of users. The same applies to the Yelp site, coerced to pay $ 450,000 (about 380,000 euros) to save data on the location of minors.

In Portugal, the Data Protection Act is clear, “when collecting personal data directly from the owner, the controller or his representative must provide you, unless it is already known, following information: identity of the controller and, where appropriate, their representatives and purposes of the processing “.