Getting information about weather can prove dangerous, weather apps are leaking mobile data!


Weather Apps: You have often heard news that some website or app has leaked data. Privacy is the biggest challenge for Android users. The data is not the personal data of any website or app but the data of the users who are using that website or app. If you are serious about this privacy then learn about apps that are spying on you today.

Weather apps spy

Different places in India have different climates. In such a situation, people are using various apps to get weather information. While at present weather app facility is also provided in every smartphone. A report has claimed that the Weather app is spying on you. So now the question is, can weather apps spy? Also how can data be leaked from the weather app? Let's understand.

Weather apps collect unnecessary data to provide weather information

According to a media report, in 2017, 2018 and 2019, data of millions of users were leaked from weather apps, due to which users faced many problems. There are many such weather apps on play store. After downloading and opening apps, it asks for many types of permissions from us and we give permission without looking. Then these apps not only give us information about the weather but also track our data and activities.

After this, information obtained from users' mobiles like contacts, photos, location, search history etc. are sold to other companies in the international market.

How can personal data be protected?

To save your personal data, you can get weather information about your location by searching weather on Google instead of any weather app. Apart from this if you still want to use the weather app, you can protect your personal data by following these steps.

- For that first go to app list option in settings

- Then click on the weather app which is downloaded in your phone, you will get all the information about it

- After that click on permission option of that app and remove the permission which is not needed

- So your phone's weather app can only access the information you give it permission to.

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