Warning .. Truecaller steals data from your smartphone

Although automated call blocking applications such as Truecaller and others are very useful, they can pose big problems.

Security researcher Dan Hatsing, who works with NCC groups, has discovered that some of the most popular automatic call banning applications send your data to outside companies without your knowledge, according to Engadget.

Hiya and Truecaller can send data from your smartphone even before you can accept their privacy policy.

TrapCall sent users' phone numbers without mentioning it in the application's privacy policy, while other apps sent information directly to Facebook at the time of download.

Truecaller told TechCrunch that it repaired the data transfers by updating the application, while the TrapCall team had changed its privacy policy after security researcher Hastings contacted Apple, the owner of the company. 39; application.

Hastings also sued Apple, accusing it of failing to review privacy policies and catching up with mistakes like Hiya's and Truecaller's.

Data collection often aims to monetize information, and this was (or for some still) part of the problem: companies took advantage of privacy breaches while protecting them from any interference in your life.