Many Samsung smartphone users use a dangerous app that sells sensitive information to anyone who is willing to pay, warn computer security experts.
The respective application, called Life360, came at one point pre-installed on Samsung smartphones, and many users have continued to use it on more recent models.
According to an investigation by The Markup, the app is used by approximately 33 million users, including iOS and other Android smartphones brands.Many use it to monitor children's movements through phones or to share geographical coordinates with other people.
Life360 was a premium application offered by Samsung on the family of Galaxy S6 smartphones.
The data collected by it are sold, according to former employees, without the company being concerned about how they are used by customers.Moreover, a former X-Mode engineer, a specialized company in precise location, said that Life360 is one of the most important partners of the company.
Although it is not allowed to do this, the application sells even the data obtained from users under the age of 13.
The founder of Life360 defended himself and said he knows no case in which a user has been identified or located based on the data provided by his company.
The users of the application have the opportunity to stop, from settings, the sale of data, but few do so.
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