{"id":77719,"date":"2025-07-22T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77719"},"modified":"2025-07-22T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T07:46:28","slug":"the-popular-apps-that-are-spying-on-you-cybersecurity-experts-issue-urgent-warning-over-data-hungry-apps-that-can-access-your-location-microphone-and-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/the-popular-apps-that-are-spying-on-you-cybersecurity-experts-issue-urgent-warning-over-data-hungry-apps-that-can-access-your-location-microphone-and-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The popular apps that are SPYING on you: Cybersecurity experts issue urgent warning over &#8216;data hungry&#8217; apps that can access your location, microphone and data"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/07\/21\/14\/100492261-14925333-image-a-10_1753104038722.jpg\" alt=\"Overall, Xiaomi asked for a total of 91 permissions - more than any other app in the study - five of which described as 'risky'\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Whatsapp.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77720,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77719\/revisions\/77720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}