The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that 60 infringing apps will be removed from the shelves. These apps will illegally obtain user privacy. When users use these software, the software will force access to the user's address book or camera permissions, and will obtain user data at will. When the user uses other functions, these software access the user's data without the user's permission, causing trouble to the user's privacy. Users using these Many problems can also occur when using software. Privacy protection is a concern for everyone, so the biggest problem with these infringing apps is the violation of user privacy.
1. Patent infringement by APP
Many APPs obtain the source code of genuine APPs without the developer’s permission. In order to achieve their own production and business purposes, they steal other people’s patents and realize Make illegal profits for yourself. Many software will cover other people's inventions, making slight changes to other people's inventions, and it is said to be your own invention. For developers, such a situation is an infringement of their own patents, and in many cases such patent infringement is not easy to detect, which is why many pirated apps can survive.
2. APP violates user privacy
Many users need to grant permissions when using software functions, but these permissions are to access the microphone, camera, or address book. It has no impact on the actual functions of the software. The software performs this operation to illegally obtain user privacy and traffic in user privacy. Many users will receive harassing phone calls after downloading such software. For users, such behavior will affect their experience and infringe on their rights to a large extent.
3. APP infringes on other people’s trademarks
Trademarks carry corporate reputation, and many users download software based on trademarks. However, many developers will use well-known trademarks, which also confuses users to a large extent, and it is easy to sell fake and shoddy products after false trademarks appear. If users do not distinguish and download such software, they will damage their property. cause losses. A trademark is a symbol of a company. Trademark infringement can also cause huge economic losses to the company, but for developers, they can make illegal profits.