Security: Android apps want up to 75 access permissions
In smaller companies in particular, there is often no monitoring of the permitted apps on a company smartphone. Nevertheless, companies and employees should keep an eye on which access permissions the apps want to have. heyData took a close look at the access permissions for 100 apps. On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the decision on the European General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR), the Compliance-as-a-Service/SaaS company heyData has published a study that provides information about the tracking of user data for the 100 most popular apps in the German Google Play Store. After analyzing the access permissions requested by Android apps on smartphones, a ranking of the most data-hungry apps was created...
