New report: These apps violate your privacy – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Many apps retrieves information about the user’s location, what kind of articles you read and share information with other companies.

Large international companies like Facebook and Google has long been described as the worst in the class, but a new report shows that several of the most popular Norwegian apps extract more information than they strictly need.

Norwegian offenders

– There are many positive things with Norwegian apps, but this study shows that they still have much to go on. More apps pulls out too much information, which allows users to not quite trust them, says Finn Myrstad Consumer Council told Dagbladet.

Among the apps that get refs Consumer Council, we find the advertising side Finn.no, game Wordfeud, bankappen tilt and VG app.

The Consumer Council believes VG app retrieves all too accurate information about the user’s location and Finn take ownership of the pictures you put in the ad service. VG also get refs to share information about users’ browsing habits to other companies.

– VG has a weather service called Pent.no which they believe justifies this. But location data they retrieve is so precise that they can read out exactly where you are at any time. It is our opinion that they can not justify, says Myrstad.

tilt alerts Facebook

Myrstad says that DNB popular overføringsapp rocker sends an alert to Facebook every time you log in to the service, which astonishes Consumer Council.

– The notification should not exist. Facebook is already in too much information and we do not quite understand why DNB will send them information of such a sensitive service, he said.

The report also found a minor security flaw in the app, but it works DNB now to fix according to vice Even Westerveld.

He confirmed that tilt share information with Facebook, but says there is no question of personal or identifiable information.

– This is reminiscent of so-called “cookies” that most Norwegian sites use so marketing shared with people through Facebook’s most relevant. For example, we do not want to bother people with a proposal to download lashes, if they have already downloaded it. The information sent to Facebook is encrypted and it is not possible to identify individuals in this way, says Westerveld.

– Required

Ingvild Næss, who are privacy ombudsman in the Schibsted group, taking criticism from Consumer Council with composure. The company, which owns both VG and Finn.no, said data collection makes apps better for users. Næss admits that the guidelines could be clearer.

We see that we can continually become more open and clear. It is important for us to be responsive to what users want, and we therefore work including giving and inform users about the options so that even greater degree can make choices regarding the use of data, says Næss.

Finn.no was also criticized for claiming the right to the pictures users leave the page, but this is according to Naess a misunderstanding.

– There has been a formulation miss in terms. Terms relating to ownership around pictures shall not apply to private users, but only companies included agreements with us. This will be corrected says Næss.

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