Out there there are spy applications that are capable of seeing all your activity on your cell phone, WhatsApp messages, Tinder, Facebook, listen to you through the microphone of your cell phone, activate your camera and take photos, videos, etc. If someone has accessed your phone and installed an app of this type, they could be viewing all this information remotely in real time. However, even if you have been careful that someone has done this to you (ex. Your partner or ex), the things you have or do on your cell phone can still be spied on by people on the other side of the world, who may be You gave them permission to do so, although you may not have realized it..
Some time ago, the developers of the popular Evernote software, where you can save notes through their PC and mobile clients (including Android), announced something that caught a lot of attention: updating their privacy policy so that some of their employees have permission to read user notes. The justification was to verify that their "machine learning" technologies were working properly. Users would not be able to prevent employee access to their content under this new policy.
Fortunately none of this happened. The company announced the cancellation of this change , in addition to committing that employees not read their users' notes without their express permission. It was also stated that they will be reviewing their privacy policy to ensure that their customer data remains private by default..
Software developers and cell phone manufacturers want your data
This is just one example of how they can spy on what you have on your cell phone and PC, or what you have registered in the apps or programs you use. All you have to do is click "Accept" to a new company policy to give them the permission they need to have access to all your information, which they could use for unknown purposes (they usually say it serves to "improve their products" or for "advertising purposes"). Most of us never read the terms and conditions or privacy policy of the programs or apps we install. We always accept these windows or pop-ups without knowing what we are granting, so this usually works well for companies to get what they want, in a completely legal way. This is most unexpected when you buy a device. You start using it and that's it. Nevertheless,as we saw previously, the Manufacturers also include their own spyware on their computers .
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