Do you have confusions of app development in singapore

Recently, through the investigation, we now propose: to reduce the legal risk for the APP user personal information security and app developers, it is recommended that the APP no longer read the contents of the user's SMS to help protect personal information.

Proposal of "APP no longer reads user sms"
Do you have such confusion:
● permission to install APP pop-up box I never see, can not read it.
● Read Phonebook, Read SMS, Get Accurate Location ... Do you need to read so much information?
● I chose "do not agree", the result of the APP can not be installed, can not be used, what can I do?

The facts you need to know:
● One of the things we did through interviews and tests during the past month: some private information that you risk when you allow an app to acquire it without much benefit to yourself or your app.
● Among them, the "read SMS" permission is the most typical.
● "read SMS" permissions, in short, is the application developers can read each of your SMS content.
● The main function of "read message" is: when you are too lazy to fill in the verification code in SMS, the application will read your verification code and automatically fill it out for you. In addition, very few APP design service functions must be implemented by reading user messages.
● However, for non-standard applicants, you can learn your bank card balance, your spending habits and even list your daily spending list by reading your messages one by one.

● If the application provider refers to a black industry or application loopholes, your above information will soon spread throughout the network, trading at a very low price, you will easily become a fraud crime goal in mobile .
● For merchants, although acquiring customer information helps to form user portraits for accurate marketing, the privacy information is different from ordinary information, which means more legal risks.
● The Cyber ​​Security Act clearly stipulates that network operators should not collect personal information unrelated to the service they provide.
● The "personal property information" and "authentication information (password)" related to SMS are already the standard "personal sensitive information".
● According to judicial interpretations released by the "two highs", illegal acquisition, sale or provision of 50 or more "personal sensitive information" has become a crime and the legal risk is huge.

So we call:
● We appeal that you turn off all applications in the phone settings to read your SMS permissions and manually fill in the verification code in the message to protect their privacy and property security.
● We urge the application to no longer request "read SMS" permission, nor write the relevant instructions in the code.