Attention: if the application requests access to the "Calendar" on a smartphone, this should alert

Roskachestvo specialists spoke about the dangers of providing applications with access to

"Calendar". Discuss

It is noted that applications during installationAs a standard, various permissions are required for correct operation. As a rule, this is access to the Internet, the creation of icons, Bluetooth, etc. This does not require special permissions from the user.

But there are "doubtful" permissions that applications do not need to work. And if some program requires such permissions, this is a cause for concern.

In total, there are 8 groups of such permissions,one of them is access to the Calendar. Despite the harmlessness of such a permission, the "Calendar" can become a source of information about the user that is important for fraudsters. Especially if the owner of the device uses the Calendar all the time.

This information may be passed on to third parties. And due to some kind of “glitch”, the application may accidentally delete important information from the calendar,” experts from Roskachestvo warned.