If you have an Android phone then you must have noticed that even when you buy a new phone, many apps are already pre-installed in it. Apart from iPhones, these apps are coming pre-installed in the phones of many companies. You will be surprised to know that these apps do not come just like that, but there is a big game going on behind it. Mobile companies not only get huge money in exchange for these apps but apart from this, hacking is also carried out through them. You will be surprised to know that pre-installed apps on your phone can spy on you and steal your data.
Names of big apps in the spying list
According to research conducted at Trinity College, Dublin, pre-installed apps in the phones of many companies are secretly storing users' data on their servers. These apps store information like screen size, web activity, phone calls, device identifiers, etc. To prepare this report, data sent from all the phones sold in India and the world has been used. The apps accused of spying include the names of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft apps.
Difficult to uninstall
You can uninstall some of the apps that come pre-installed on the phone, but there are some apps that you can neither delete nor uninstall. The report says that all the pre-installed apps that come in some cheap phones send details of the app screen to the company, which contains information about the time spent on each app. The report claims that this data is also sent outside Singapore and Europe.
What is the way to avoid them?
Nowadays, even in premium smartphones, apps like Facebook, Google, Amazon, WhatsApp, and Spotify are coming pre-installed. In such a situation, it is important for you not to use the apps that come pre-installed on the phone. If you want to use the app, first delete or uninstall it and download that app again from Google Play Store, only then log into it and use it.
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