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The government is understood to be looking at prohibiting mobile applications from collecting user information beyond their area of functioning, the move coming in the backdrop of concerns around data handling<\/a> and user privacy<\/a>, including at the hands of American internet giants Facebook<\/a> and WhatsApp<\/a> and scores of top international and Chinese apps<\/a>.
Sources told TOI the Centre has begun work on a policy<\/a> that would stop mobile and internet apps to collect information that is “not necessary” for their functioning.
The government is going to have a “policy on preburning\/pre-loading of apps on mobile phones”, sources said, adding that the concerns arose as “many of these apps are installed on mobile phones without the consent of the user”.
In fact, the importance of user consent and illegal harvesting of data is something that has increasingly been getting resonance within various echelons of the government, including finding prominent positions in the data protection bill, which is currently tabled in Parliament.
Sources said like push email, the government is also working on areas to stop push apps which are advertised by handset manufacturers. Most of the measures, sources say, are being taken in view of concerns around the data protection of millions of users.
The unauthorised collection of data has been flagged off even previously by the government, especially as many apps tend to take data which is not even remotely connected to their utility. The government feels that after the Covid outbreak and work and study from home situations, humongous amount of data is moving online, right from education of students, to businesses and offices, to social media and internet conversations.
“There are increasing number of instances of cyber-attacks, phishing, and even data thefts at the hands of some of the well-known and larger internet apps,” a source said.
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据悉,政府考虑禁止移动应用程序收集用户信息超出了他们的功能领域,此举担忧的背景下数据处理和用户隐私,包括在美国互联网巨头手中脸谱网和WhatsApp和许多国际和中国应用程序。
消息人士告诉钢铁洪流中心开始工作政策将停止移动和互联网应用程序收集信息,“没有必要”的功能。
政府会有一个“政策预燃/手机预装的应用程序”,消息来源说,担忧起来,“其中许多应用程序是安装在手机没有用户的同意”。
事实上,用户同意和非法获取数据的重要性是越来越得到共振在政府的各个阶层,包括发现的突出位置数据保护法案,目前在议会提出。
消息人士表示,像邮件推送,政府也在研究区域停止推动应用程序由手机制造商的广告。来源说,大部分的措施正在实施的数百万用户的数据保护的担忧。
未经授权的数据标记甚至以前由政府,尤其是在许多应用程序倾向于把数据甚至不是远程连接到他们的效用。政府觉得Covid爆发后,在家工作和学习情况,对巨大的数据量是移动网络,从教育的学生,企业和办事处,社交媒体和互联网的谈话。
“有越来越多的网络攻击的实例,钓鱼,甚至数据盗窃的一些著名的和更大的互联网应用,”一个消息来源人说道。
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