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[Pawel Stolowski <pawel.stolowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

There is IMHO no good way of knowing that unless you inspect source code 
of all the apps you use (and of course for some you'll not have source 
code).
On Ubuntu Phone apps are of course confined with apparmor, so they 
cannot suddenly steal data they are not supposed to access.

An interesting study re Android and iOS, just released:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/user-data-plundering-by-android-and-ios-apps-is-as-rampant-as-you-suspected/

Cheers,
Pawel


On 06.11.2015 15:05, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> I think that sending data off to Internet without that the user knows
> this and/or without that the user can easily(!) switch this off, no
> matter what the data is (search requests or credit card PINs) is a
> violation of trust, security and a serious issue.
>
> Speaking about our Ubuntuphone: do we have this issue, do we have such
> apps which are "phoning home"? The HERE I have disabled.
>
> Thanks
>
> 	matthias