Cheetah Mobile is again wanted by sending user data via 8 applications

Cheetah mobile, Chinese giant creator of applications recognized as Clean Master and with 100 million active daily users, has been involved in a new controversy. The company has once again been hunt sending user data through 8 applications.

From Kochava and BuzzFeed News, they report that the Chinese developer was again hunted and committed bad advertising, and that it would have sent the data of its users through eight of its great applications, among which Clean Master, Master Security, CM Launcher 3D, Battery Doctor, Cheetah Keyboard, CM Locker, CM File Manager. KIKA Keyboard, application that totals more than 100 million downloads, has also been involved in the controversy.

Cheetah Mobile apps use other apps to make honest profits. Your applications they include ads and tend to abuse licenses, asking users to perform tasks that are not really necessary. With this, for example, a keypad accesses the phone, accounts, SMS registration and other system data. A strategy that helped Cheetah Mobile to Earn revenue with other apps' ads.

How to benefit from third-party applications and without your consent

The main problem is that the alleged advertising fraud discovered shows how Cheetah Mobile uses its applications, like Clean Master – which passes a billion downloads – enjoy by abusing the permissions granted by users to your apps to monitor installed apps and Earn more clicks with inserted adsas shown in the image above, courtesy of BuzzFeed News.

Cheetah Mobile applications would use third-party application servers to send information about installations. The main goal was to charge the income for the installation, as well as to simulate the clicks to get benefits for the advertisers.

To perform this practice, the user must download an application from the Chinese developer and give access to his phone. Once installed, the application monitors other installations performed by the user. From these, we seek to get your server to send advertising. Once obtained, Cheetah applications are able to create fake clicks, which allows these servers to receive information indicating that their applications have been installed. In this way, enjoy the benefits of installation with the help of other applications that monitor.

In summary, Cheetah Mobile was able to generate advertising revenue in all user applications without the developer providing these advertisements. Nail alleged fraud endangering the privacy of the user, and an alleged fraud for advertisers, who allegedly paid the Cheetah group undue sums. The developer has not yet pronounced in this regard, we must wait to know his version of the facts.

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