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IOS 15 turns into a "magic mirror"
WWDC 202 1 without hardware product release was ridiculed as Apple's most "soft" conference in recent years, and the iterative update of iOS, iPad OS and Mac OS without underlying logic changes did not seem to arouse much splash in the terminal market. However, with the recent push of iOS 15 and a large number of user upgrades, its popularity suddenly broke away from the chart.
This starts with Apple's introduction of "Application Privacy Report" in iOS 15. Through it, users can see when the application collects their own data, including location information, microphones, photos, contacts in the past week, and how often the application accesses these data. Not only that, users can also find out which third parties have shared their data with these apps. It can be said that under this function of iOS 15, the behavior of all apps will be clear at a glance.
The new "Application Privacy Report" in iOS 15 makes the behavior of all applications clear at a glance.
When Apple introduced this function on WWDC 202 1, it didn't cause much sensation. However, as more and more Apple users upgrade their devices to iOS 15, the behavior of "national" apps such as Meituan, QQ and WeChat over-reading user information has begun to cause heated discussion in society. Taking Meituan as an example, some netizens found that Meituan locates every five minutes every 24 hours through the "Record App Activity" option in iOS 15, which makes people wonder: "What the hell is this?" .
Wechat, with 654.38+02 billion users, was also found to repeatedly read user albums in the background. In addition, many users also found that Taobao, QQ, Weibo, sogou and other input methods. Repeatedly locate users or read photo albums in the background by "recording App activities".
Most of these apps read user information without the user's knowledge. Frequent reading makes users very disgusted. No one wants the photos, current location information and other data stored in the mobile phone album to be read by the app for a long time. When the behavior of these apps is made public, it will naturally cause public doubts and concerns about whether they infringe on personal privacy.
It is not "fresh" for App to collect information excessively.
On June 5438+1October 1 1, an engineer of Meituan publicly responded that this kind of software was selectively displayed after unilaterally reading the system operation log. Tested by the engineers of Meituan, when the relevant permissions are turned on and the App background is still active, most mainstream apps will be detected by the software to frequently read user information, and the monitoring results are highly similar.
According to the logic of these replies, the user portrait can be realized more accurately without considering the user cost and collecting the user information at any time, so as to carry out targeted services. However, the original intention of "user-friendly" cannot draw a clear line between the invasion of privacy and consumers' right to know and choose, and consumers' right to know and choose should always be respected.
It can be seen that from requiring unnecessary permissions to over-reading information, mobile apps have been collecting user information and overusing user information over the years. Specifically, the problems of App can be roughly divided into two levels: "illegal collection" and "illegal use" of users' personal information. "Illegal collection" means that these apps collect user information privately and beyond the scope. For example, App collects user information without clearly telling the purpose, method and scope of collecting and using user information, and obtaining the consent of users; Or collect user information beyond the scope and frequency in non-service essential or unreasonable application scenarios; "Illegal use" refers to sharing user information to a third party privately and forcing users to use the directional push function.
Why do apps frequently cross borders?
App's excessive collection of user information has always been criticized, but why do major apps still cross borders frequently on this issue? Before discussing this issue, we must have an understanding of the classification of personal information. Generally speaking, user information can be divided into two categories. One is quasi-static information, such as user's name, age, address, etc. , usually does not change often. After the App is collected once, the information can be used for a long time. The other is dynamic information, such as the user's location, mobile payment, personal health status and other information, which is constantly changing or changing at any time. Dynamic information needs frequent access by applications. From a technical point of view, App does have business needs for frequently obtaining user information, such as navigation path planning, and naturally needs to know the real-time location of users; In the health monitoring business, it is necessary to obtain the user's sports data and physical condition information at any time.
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App frequently crosses borders in the collection of user information, which is beneficial in the final analysis.