Text messages, emails, application downloads and links are some of the ways in which they are recently trying to obtain personal data from users. The truth is that the web has never been a safe place, since you are exposed to the data request.
How to proceed when receiving such a message? For the computer engineer Alejandro Varas, the ideal is to ignore and block these numbers. It is important that users learn to be wary of messages from contacts who are not immediately identifiable and offer benefits in exchange for contact information.
The Unase, a national directorate specialized in the resolution of kidnapping and extortion cases, told the public that this type of scam attempts was becoming more recurrent, as well as the increase in its victims. The Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code (COIP) sanctions this type of crime in Ecuador with up to seven years imprisonment.
On the other hand, the download of the application has gone viral Get Contact, which allows users to know how their friends, family and others have registered them. However, to access it you must accept certain conditions. Rods indicates that no app published on stores like Google Play or the Apple App Store will tell potential users that it will steal their data.
“The risk users run when using Get Contact is that the application, apart from requesting authorization to the personal data of the device, such as telephone number and contact list, requests permissions to things such as the camera, the microphone, the internet connection and the geographical location, which are totally unnecessary for verify how they have us stored in the contact agendas of others”, explains Varas.
Subsequently, the information could be used to display advertisements in digital media.
Varas seeks to emphasize that as users we always deliver our personal data by accepting the “terms and conditions”but what happens is that not everyone takes the time to read these clauses.
It is important to remember that all activity carried out on the web is recorded with the fingerprint. According to the specialized site Ambit, it incorporates all the records and traces that we leave behind when we use the internet.
The problem with this is that sometimes these records represent information about us that can be used by third parties to earn money, or to know our preferences and be able to better sell their products. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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