Viber Surveys Users' Attitudes Towards Privacy in 2018
During the course of the late debates about the privacy criteria of the various socializing and messaging apps - such as Facebook, WhatsApp and TikTok - many apps have become aware of the fact that the users themselves may be oblivious to the reality that they need a serious educational and guiding steps in order to start paying more attention to their privacy settings, their app preferences and what they choose to stay connected online and when to, consciously, let the messaging or socialzing app read and copy their personal data in the effort to aid the app in the process of meeting the user's needs without spying on him.
Consequently, the viral app, Viber, has been lately coming across as the more-than-willing app to educate people and warn them about their privacy settings. This parental attitude that Viber displayed towards the users has arisen because, recently, Viber released the results of a survey that tackled the various issues of privacy and protection of personal data. Shockingly, the results revealed that nearly the majority of the users didn't pay the right amount of attention to the issues of privacy and protection - weirdly enough - even though, since the start of 2018 and even before, some apps were accused of deliberately compromising the user's privacy and stealing their data, whilst other apps started to further promote their platforms as the safe havens where users can communicate and chat safely with no disturbances or compromising.
The survey, that included a wide range of users of Viber and other apps as well, included different questions that ranged from how many times each user checked his privacy settings every now and then, to what would the user's reaction be if he found out that many of the apps deployed across his smart devices are tracking him down and copying his personal data with no obvious and clear consent from him; what if a third party had the power to divulge the details of the massaging sessions effortlessly? Unfortunately, the results made it clear that almost half of the surveyed people weren't concerned, nor interested, in the privacy of their data on the apps, which seems to be extremely difficult to comprehend and soundly assimilate since innumerable, huge debates about privacy issues have extremely rose to prominence in the past months. Thankfully, many users are clever enough to declare that they would stop using an app if it turned out to be accessing personal information with no official request, or if the content of the private messages are being shared with third parties - Facebook faced multiple accusations regarding its privacy policy and its concealed attempts to spy on the users, yet its well-reputed status seems to be totally unharmed by these accusations.
However, even if people are quite unaware of their individual rights of unshakeable privacy features, still the very massive share of users are to-some-extent intolerable towards any app that turns out to be breaching messaging sessions unofficially. Viber, wisely, notifies the users of every updated feature of the platform and of their rights to have an end-to-end encryption in order to protect their privacy rights.
The survey, that included a wide range of users of Viber and other apps as well, included different questions that ranged from how many times each user checked his privacy settings every now and then, to what would the user's reaction be if he found out that many of the apps deployed across his smart devices are tracking him down and copying his personal data with no obvious and clear consent from him; what if a third party had the power to divulge the details of the massaging sessions effortlessly? Unfortunately, the results made it clear that almost half of the surveyed people weren't concerned, nor interested, in the privacy of their data on the apps, which seems to be extremely difficult to comprehend and soundly assimilate since innumerable, huge debates about privacy issues have extremely rose to prominence in the past months. Thankfully, many users are clever enough to declare that they would stop using an app if it turned out to be accessing personal information with no official request, or if the content of the private messages are being shared with third parties - Facebook faced multiple accusations regarding its privacy policy and its concealed attempts to spy on the users, yet its well-reputed status seems to be totally unharmed by these accusations.
However, even if people are quite unaware of their individual rights of unshakeable privacy features, still the very massive share of users are to-some-extent intolerable towards any app that turns out to be breaching messaging sessions unofficially. Viber, wisely, notifies the users of every updated feature of the platform and of their rights to have an end-to-end encryption in order to protect their privacy rights.
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