Apps make your life easier and more fun, but at the same time, they collect information about you and sell it. Recently, TV2 showed how mobile games and apps collect illegal data on children in Denmark.
- Location data, text messages, e-mail, pictures, contacts and calendar appointments are just some of the information that companies get access to when you download a game to your phone.
- In general, try to limit the access of apps to your phone data. Check permissions and see what access you have given to your current apps – see if they really need them to function. Do not take the easy way and login with your Facebook account to various websites and apps. Update your apps to the latest version to reduce their chance of being hacked. Delete old apps.
- When you uninstall an app/game or delete a profile on a website, the company will not delete the data they already have. GDPR actually gives you the power to ask the company to delete your data. How? Complete this template and send it to the company.
