Smartphone APPs: Don’t click ‘yes’ for all permissions

Critically examine permissions that an app asks for. (Illustration by: C R Sasikumar)
While India has more than 300 million mobile internet users, awareness of app-based security and privacy issues are still quite low in the country. People download multiple apps each week providing numerous permissions unwittingly to various companies. According to experts, while such behaviour is understandable, such ignorance poses numerous threats to smartphone users.
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