Did you know that Downloading this Photo Editor App can expose your data ?
These days editing photos and selfies has been a daily procedure for many. It seems that we take close to 6 photos on an average to select one to be uploaded on Social media. Due to constraints in camera pixel we often tend to use editing apps to beautify the picture taken on phone.
There are many apps in the play store and app store , but one such app called Meitu selfie has been circulated and its ads are highly promoted in Facebook and Instagram.
What’s wrong ?
This app takes multiple permissions and forces user to give more data than what is actually required for a photo editing app. The Android version of Meitu can access information about what other apps users are running, their precise locations, their unique device identifier numbers (IMSIs), call information, carrier information and Wi-Fi connections.
iOS version similarly takes information about your cell carrier, is the phone Jail broken or not. These information could be handy to form analytics to the company.
In comparison Android is prone to more risk than iOS due to constraints over the OS. Though there are lots of apps which take unnecessary permissions Google failed to strictly monitor the relation between Core functions and the permissions while iOS has strict guidelines and more rejections if there is no proper usage to the permissions. iOS too is not spared at times and is only partial secure.
Why do I have to worry ?
In recent times there were rumors about Xiaomi using data of its users for unaccepted purposes which lead to huge downfall of its Smartphone sales. If the data is given to any other company user will be proned to receive ads and relevancy is killed while looking for information online.
Other side of the Story
An article written in Businessinsider states that the App is trending in United States due to its features such as adding filters, enlarging eyes & cartoonistic elements.
We do not know what’s true, hence everyone has to wait until a probe is done to help users get to understand the facts.
What do I do now ?
Its better that we do not use apps that asks for unrelated and unnecessary permissions which are not actually used in the core function of the app.
It may be Meitu selfie or any other app. Beware what you download and what you use.











