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Showing posts with label mobile applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobile applications. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 June 2016
The need for privacy policies in mobile apps
It is an easy task for the app developer to
create a new mobile application during this technology advanced era but is that
every apps safe for the user’s privacy? It is important for app developers to
know the imperative laws before create an app because it concern to user’s
privacy. When the user’s personal information had used by the third parties it
can be a serious issue and illegal problem for the app developers and can be
sued by the user. So the app developer must set the privacy policy into their
apps which informs user about the precise purpose, who will have the data,
categories of personal data the app wants to collect and the user’s rights. (Iubenda, n.d)
By: Low Joong Lok
Domestic Abuse goes Digital
Some companies make use of mobile application to gain profit
even if it involves immoral behavior from the users. In the article, domestic
abusers are able to track down their spouses and spy on their daily activities.
This endangers the victims’ lives because every move made is being monitored by
their abuser. The victims will not be able to ask for help and be confined by
their abusers. The law enforcement were able to stop this particular
application. However, this application is just 1 out of 100Billion according to
the statistics(The Statistics Portal, 2015). The companies should not earn profit by making other
people’s lives suffer.
References:
The Statistics Portal. (2015). Statistics and facts about mobile app usage. [online] Available at: http://www.statista.com/topics/1002/mobile-app-usage/ [Accessed 17 Jun. 2016].
By: Low Joong Lok
Tuesday, 21 June 2016
Watch out: Cell phones can be addictive
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Teenagers nowadays are addicted to mobile application as
there are many interesting apps to be explored. This had results in dominated teenager’s
daily life activity by interrupting their sleep, work and study. Certain people
use smartphones to lift their moods. For such people, losing a phone or having
its battery die could cause anxiety or panic. To ensure mobile app do not
become an addiction, Parents can enforce a house rule that allows access cell
phone only during certain times of the day. (Family Bootcamp, 2016)
App makers: It’s time to stop exploiting user addiction and get ethical
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In today world of new technology advancement, mobile device
users increase dramatically. Developers build mobile app and create users
addiction intentionally in order to create more profit. This had raise the number of “Mobile Addict “as certain apps
especially social apps give us hits of dopamine. Excessive used of these app
will exhibit brain damage and cause users to mental, physical, and social harm. Developers should be ethical and protect user’s mental
health and well-being by notifying users who uses app excessively with usage
report to create self-awareness. Additionally, they can include self-regulation
tools which limit user’s time in accessing mobile applications.
Smartphone Addiction: Managing your phone usage time
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Smartphone addiction is a serious issue since the wide use
of mobile application. According to study, 70% of people will check their phone
within the moment they wake up everyday. This is a bad habit as it leads to lack of communication
with family and friends when users just focus on checking their phone every 15
minutes even in the workplace. There are 3 ways to learn how to manage your smartphone such
as be conscious of what feelings that make you want to check your phone and try
to find other way to divide your attention, be strong when the phone rings, try
to avoid this temptation by putting silent and be disciplined .
Crooks misusing police mobile apps
Mobile phone applications are convenient tools for
people to complete different tasks. Besides, it’s easy to install and use when
you have a smartphone. In India, the police of Tumakuru had launched a mobile
app to the public so people can use this app to report incidents online and get responses immediately. Although it brings benefit to the public but still have some
criminal use the police app to hack people’s bank account by entering their
phone number in the police app make a false report and get the victim duplicate
SIM so the victim would not receive any alert message of money transaction.
Therefore the victim money was transferred to the criminal account without and
notice. There are some people misuse the mobile apps for crime action when it’s
convenient to all users. To solve this issue the police department must discuss
with the technical team to improve the app secure. (Gowhar, 2016)
By: Ivan Tang
How safe are your mobile banking apps?
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People are relying more on using banking apps to do transaction and it is
a chance for the fraudster to steal bank customer’s money through banking apps.
Fraudster also creates a fake banking apps to steal personal details and use
the phone number to access victim financial information. The malware which
create by the fraudster will attack the victim banking apps to get personal
details and misuse it. To prevent becoming a victim people must download the
banking apps from the official channel and be aware of the message send by SMS
which ask for bank account number. In addition, the banker can put in six or 4
digit authentication PIN for every customer and auto block the customer who not
use the apps for a specific time. It’s a way to protect customer’s privacy. (vishwanathan, 2016)
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By: Ivan Tang
Oovoo: Parents claim paedophiles are using smartphone app to target children
Misuse on social media apps also can impact a child's
life when the criminal use those apps to allure children and became a
harassment issue. Some paedophilia will use the apps to send sexual messages to
the children and mislead them. Besides, children use those social media apps to
meet strangers and get cheated by them. To prevent this issue parents must filter
out inappropriate websites and ensure their child is enough age to join the
social networking site. Parents also need to educate their children not to
communicate with strangers by using the social media apps and teach them to use
the safety function of the apps block the strangers so they can reduce the
harassment issues. (GLENDINNING, 2016)
British mobile phone users’ movements 'could be sold for profit’
Cybercrime use the hacker apps to hack public
information and sell it for profit also an issue of misuse mobile apps. The
cybercrime also use those information to blackmail people. Some of the mobile
apps have location tracking function to provide the user details so the
criminal will create the societal problem for instance kidnapping, swindle case
and others. The solution of this issue are people close their location tracking
function apps and not using the public WIFI to download any apps or register something
that use personal details. Besides, mobile company should make contracts
available before the point of sale and marketing to let people know what data
had been collected and who will be shared with it so the violate personal
privacy issues will be lessen. (Gayle, 2016)
Mobile Addiction
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By: Chow Suet Li
Privacy Issue
A research from University of California concluded that among 825 mobile applications for iPhone users, 21% forward the ID number, 4% forward the current position and 0.5% copy the address books. As for android users, installing apps requires the permission to access right to data (contacts, photos, location) and will be claimed by the app, or else the app will not be installed. Once installed, the privileges cannot be revoked. Many developers claimed that they do so because they want to ensure the functionality of the app runs smoothly. To solve the issue of data abuse, an app called “SRT AppGuard” is created to show the users on every application they installed and what it accesses to. Privileges can be taken back or given to the respective app at any time by the users. What comes even great is it can be downloaded without any fees charges.
Mobile Spying
Mobile
spying applications are designed for the purpose of child and employee
monitoring, but sometimes the purpose extend beyond that. After buying the
application, a link is given to be downloaded in the target phone or tablet.
When it finishes downloading, the app disappears and works in complete stealth
mode without leaving trace behind (Souza, 2016). The user then need to sign into online user
account with username and password given by the company. The list of activities that can be monitored are in the article. It could be a law offense if one install monitoring software onto
phone which he/she do not own or have proper authorization to install it. A
person (over 18 years old) who is being monitored need to be notified or else
the user is consider violated the laws. It may be legal for parents to monitor
their children through spy app, but ethically it is wrong to monitor them
without their consent. One way to eliminate this option is to open a honest,
friendly and fair conversation with their children. As for organisation, it can
win employee’s hearts if trust is given to them. When their conscience is in
charge, it may increase the engagement in productivity.
Misuse Of Mobile App Configurations
A Gartner analyst foresee that misconfiguration of mobile applications could produce 75% of mobile security breaches by next year. Instead of technical attacks on mobile devices, data are leaked when the organization are not aware of the misuse of personal cloud services. The cloud service apps in mobiles devices and tablets which used to convey enterprise data may lead to data breaches. Confidential data could be stolen, viewed and used by unknown authority.
Federal Legislation Introduced Regarding Mobile Application Privacy
In order to promote transparency and protect the mobile application
user’s privacy, The Apps Act had introduced by Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson.
The Apps Act are mean for the app developers to provide notice to the apps
users when sharing their personal data before collecting the personal data. The
notice must include the purpose of collecting and whom is the third party that
will receives. App developers need to take responsibility to prevent
unauthorized access to the apps user’s personal data and inform the users when
they want to stop the mobile apps by deleting their stored personal data (Orzechowski,
2013).
Read more here:
http://www.whitecase.com/publications/article/federal-legislation-introduced-regarding-mobile-application-privacy
By: Edward See Noor Yee
By: Edward See Noor Yee
4 Legal Considerations for Building a Mobile App
Legal considerations when developing a mobile application is
important to protect the mobile applications from involving in complaints,
negative media coverage and lawsuits. Four ways that prevent negative issues to
happen are don’t hide the money factor if your application has a charge
associated with it, evaluate the data drilling by clearly identify what user
data your app is collecting and legalese is bad because lengthy boilerplate
terms make the users difficult to understand and ignore it. Therefore, be user
friendly way (Hutnik, 2011).
Read more here:
http://mashable.com/2011/05/26/mobile-app-legal-tips/#7ksAl_zLHEq5
By: Edward See Noor Yee
Application misuse is proving hard for IT to spot
Business users are misusing the applications, but IT
department finds it difficult to stop them. Users abuse applications for
negligent or malicious purposes such as stealing data for sale to other competitors
in the market. Besides, users can misuse software in various ways such as view,
copy, or print data. Only one in four said they could stop employees copying
files. 71% of malicious are caused by neglicience. In site of this, more
companies are planning to move their applications to the cloud or break down
the users into privileged users and ‘application users’. Only these two users
can access to the cloud to prevent leakage of information (Bradburry, 2016).
Read more here:
http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/application-misuse-is-proving-hard-for-it-to-spot/375582
By: Edward See Noor Yee
Monday, 20 June 2016
‘Stalker apps’ and GPS allow domestic violence abusers to discover hidden refuges.
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Refuges that house victim of domestic violence are increasingly being discovered by perpetrators using “stalker apps” and GPS locators hidden in their victim’s phone, cars and others. Through these apps and GPS locators the prey know exactly the locations of their victims. These victims live in fear as there are nowhere to escape from their abusers. The stalking technology cannot be stopped because something as simple as public transport card can locate the users. Hence, the Australian Prime Minister has declared the misuse of technology in domestic violence an issue and promised a national plan. The workers in domestic violence sectors believed education and awareness is the only solutions.
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Posted By: Vivien Ngai
Rape by mobile messaging
A growing number of underage Malaysian girls are being lured
by sexual predators through mobile chat apps and then sexually assaulted. These
victims usually going through puberty and experiencing problems which they find
it impossible to share with their parents so they turned to strangers to get
some comfort. These predators will take advantage of the trust of the victims
and lure them out to sexually abuse them. Hence, education is important to stop
these sexual crimes on social issues, family should start building open
communication with their child and educate them on sex.
How to prevent your teen from misusing their cell phone?
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Parents allow their teenager to use cell phone so they can
reach them at any time but teenagers often make poor choices when they can use
cell phone freely. Parents can use these signs to prevent teenagers to
misuse cell phone such as excessive usage, secretive, make calls behind closed door
and late night phone calls are some of the warning signs of misusing cell
phone. Hence, parents should set ground rules and discuss the appropriate usage
with teenagers. Parents should monitor the phone usage at all time with the
help of certain mobile applications to enable parents to monitor the child cell
phone usage with a simple touch of a button.
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