I don’t want to share that information with Zynga, other apps, strangers or potential cyber criminals! I don’t mind connecting a photo to my online Words With Friend’s profile but I can’t think of any good reason that I’d want to give Zynga access to my other images, videos, audio or my device’s external storage. Can you?Ĭall me crazy but why would I want to share the name of my connected Wi-Fi devices? I tend to give my devices and my wi-fi obscure names that are meaningful to me. I understand how this gives general demographic information for marketing purposes however, I don’t want to share this either. Why would I want Zynga to have access to my personal and private calendar and contact information in my phone? Not only is that not their business, it’s a huge invasion of privacy to my contacts. I certainly don’t want them to have access to my browsing history and my bookmarks. I don’t want Words With Friends creator, Zynga, to know what other apps I use. Opening all the drop down menus provided additional shocking details about the information this app would be extracting from my mobile device. Wow! New Words With Friends “needs access to” a lot of personal data. I use a paid version of this app but I was wrong to assume they wouldn’t be using my data anyway. Pretty extensive, right? When I get something for free, I expect that they’ll be expecting a lot in return. (In fact, here’s a previous article regarding general app dangers – How Apps Sneakily Steal Your Privacy) This article is geared more to Facebook apps but my point is to start to look at settings of every app you use on every device – especially your smartphones!īack to Words With Friends: The screenshot below shows the general categories this app gains access to once installed. Keep in mind that most apps take similar liberties with our digital data and before you use any app at all, please take time to explore the privacy settings and permissions. I’m going to go into details about the permissions given to this app by default, however, please don’t ignore this article if you don’t play Words With Friends. After an annoying upgrade option kept popping up on my screen, I read the privacy policy to learn exactly what I’d be giving up in exchange for the improved version of the game. An ongoing game or two of Words with Friends, an app on my Android phone, has been a simple and guilty pleasure that I’ve enjoyed regularly.
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