Despite the controversies surrounding the fullfilment of security requirements of our mobile devices always usually put the operating system of Google in the eye of the hurricane, a study now reveals that there is a section in which applications de Android are safer than those of iOS: the management of our data personal.
It's hard for Android never get rid of the stigma of malware, and certainly the figures on his progression in this operating system they are not exactly reassuring. Recognizing the problem, one of the improvements that Google introduced in one of its latest updates, in fact, it has been the incorporation of a scanner malware. The applications of the App Store de Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, in comparison, they have always had much more confidence on the part of their users when it comes to security. However, as they comment in cult of android based on a report from the consultancy Apthority, there is a section in which the applications of iOS are more dangerous than those of Android: they share our personal data more frequently.
The study is made on the basis of a large sample of the most downloaded free apps on both platforms and the results are quite clear: the 60% of the applications of iOS studied share our personal data with other agencies (the 50% en Android), The 60% they also collect data on location (The 42% en Android), The 54% collects data about our contact lists (The 20% en Android) and a 14% it even collects information from our calendar (0% en Android). The most worrying thing is that all this personal information that they extract and then share, in the 100% of the cases studied in iOS and in the 92% of those studied in Android, it is not encrypted to keep it protected.
As can be seen, the percentages of risky practices among developers is quite high also in Android, but the differences with iOS they are undoubtedly significant. Bearing in mind that, after all, the malware affects approximately one 1% of the applications of AndroidWould we perhaps do better to worry less about him and more about this other type of risk?