With mobile apps becoming more and more powerful, accessing your smartphone's capabilities in new and clever ways, users really need to ensure they trust the apps they are downloading and installing. Mobileactive provides users with a handy checklist of questions to ask, in order to find out whether the app you are about to download is trustworthy, or whether it could be malicious. According to Mobileactive, risks include: Your conversations may be listened to or recorded without your knowledge. Your text messages, emails and web traffic may be monitored and logged. Data stored on your phone (contacts, calendar entries, photos and video) may be accessed or copied. Passwords stored or entered on your phone may be stolen and used to access your online accounts. Your location may be tracked, even when your phone is switched off. To protect yourself and your phone, ask: 1. What features of your phone are available to apps? 2. What phone features should this app need to use? Does this match the permissions it requests? 3. Who is the developer? 4. Who are the users? 5. Is the code publicly available? 6. Is your data being stored and transmitted securely?  Read more here.

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