An open letter warning Google is announced, `` Apps preinstalled on Android devices can be vulnerable ''
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Privacy International, a UK-based charity that promotes privacy protection activities, issued an open letter addressed to Google's CEO Thunder Pichai, jointly with more than 50 organizations, and described the dangers of apps preinstalled on Android devices Appealed.
An open letter to Google | PI
https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/3320/open-letter-google
Fifty-three organizations have issued public letters to Pichai, including Privacy International, the American Free Association for Human Rights (ACLU), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), DuckDuckGo , and the Tor Project .
The signer said, 'Mr. Pichai, privacy is only available to the rich. luxury Products that run Android are often preinstalled with irremovable bloatware, and pointed out that this bloatware is 'potentially vulnerable.' You.
Google claims that `` Android devices are protected from harmful apps by Google Play Protect '', but in a paper published in May 2019, 91% of apps pre-installed on smartphones with Android Is not shown in the Google Play store .
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Pre-installed apps may be granted privileged permissions such as 'Can run outside of Android security'. For example, pre-installed apps will be able to access microphones, cameras and location information without the user's permission.
The open letter criticized smartphone manufacturers for pre-installing various applications on Android devices as `` exploitable business practices of cheap smartphone manufacturers '' and enumerated the following three items that should be changed immediately Is.
◆ 1: Individual users should be able to permanently uninstall pre-installed apps from their mobile phones. This must include related background services that will continue to work even if the app is disabled.
◆ 2: The pre-installed apps should be checked in the same way as regular apps handled in the Google Play Store, and scrutiny of custom permissions in particular is desired.
◆ 3: Pre-installed apps require some update mechanism if possible via Google Play and without user account. Google should refuse to authenticate a device for privacy reasons if a manufacturer or vendor tries to use a pre-installed app to gather user information.
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The signer stated in an open letter, 'Google should use influential agent status in the ecosystem to protect users and prevent manufacturers from abusing pre-installed apps in smartphone price competition. '
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