Nowadays, with the rapid development of Internet and information industry, mobile phones play a dominant role in people’s life. Wherever you are, you can discover that almost everyone is equipped with a phone. It has been widely recognized that phones make our life more convenient and make people closer. However, each coin has two sides. I want to focus on the disadvantages of phones in terms of security, and many evidence can be named to prove this.
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In recent years, the explosion of Samsung smartphone- Galaxy Note 7- has shocked the world. It is never expected that such an advanced and universal product would endanger our lives. Most people said that they were disappointed and won’t buy any Samsung products. Therefore, we cannot ignore the dangers caused by high-tech products due to their own instability in the aspect of safety. What’s more, some imperceptible harm of phones should arouse our attention to a larger extent. For example, frequent use of phones increases the risk of developing the brain tumor. The electromagnetic field in cell phones may reduce bone density or lead to osteoporosis. Besides, studies reveal that playing phones too long will harm tissues and joints of human fingers, let alone our eyesight. What’s worse, the harms also rise to spiritual level. Smart phones distract people from their work and study which will reduce the efficiency of their work. Teenagers or students are addicted to phones. They less communication with families and friends, or even lose control of themselves. Reliance on phones will cause mental and social diseases, such as solitude, rebelliousness and social phobia. Therefore, to avoid these disadvantages, we should not only buy phones in regular stores, but also strictly rationalize the time spent on …show more content…
Mayer-Schönberger pointed out a word, paralyzing privacy, to extrapolate the danger to privacy from the growth in digital medium [1] He surveyed that just providing a person’s phone number, criminals can find all his private information on the Internet. And their team logged into a QQ group and found there were nearly 1946 netizens. Their personal information are sold in open market, such as identity of census register, assets, call records, Alipay account and check-in records. Aside from phone numbers, Apps have become a new trap of deceit. A lot of smartphone apps can help you find the route and destination if you let them access your phone's GPS. But even if you give permission, do you know everything they're doing with that information? Four researchers, who are in the Institute of Doctoral Studies Bucharest, wanted to find out, so they modified the Android mobile phone platform to tag all data apps sent from the phone. Then they randomly selected 30 Android apps, choosing only ones that require access to the Internet and access to the phone's GPS, camera or microphone. Meanwhile, researchers take use of big data analytics to analyze the whole data. Finally, it turned out that 15—half the apps—sent the phone's location to third-party advertisers, and a third of the apps showed the phone's unique ID, sometimes along with the phone number and SIM card serial number.
In recent years, the explosion of Samsung smartphone- Galaxy Note 7- has shocked the world. It is never expected that such an advanced and universal product would endanger our lives. Most people said that they were disappointed and won’t buy any Samsung products. Therefore, we cannot ignore the dangers caused by high-tech products due to their own instability in the aspect of safety. What’s more, some imperceptible harm of phones should arouse our attention to a larger extent. For example, frequent use of phones increases the risk of developing the brain tumor. The electromagnetic field in cell phones may reduce bone density or lead to osteoporosis. Besides, studies reveal that playing phones too long will harm tissues and joints of human fingers, let alone our eyesight. What’s worse, the harms also rise to spiritual level. Smart phones distract people from their work and study which will reduce the efficiency of their work. Teenagers or students are addicted to phones. They less communication with families and friends, or even lose control of themselves. Reliance on phones will cause mental and social diseases, such as solitude, rebelliousness and social phobia. Therefore, to avoid these disadvantages, we should not only buy phones in regular stores, but also strictly rationalize the time spent on …show more content…
Mayer-Schönberger pointed out a word, paralyzing privacy, to extrapolate the danger to privacy from the growth in digital medium [1] He surveyed that just providing a person’s phone number, criminals can find all his private information on the Internet. And their team logged into a QQ group and found there were nearly 1946 netizens. Their personal information are sold in open market, such as identity of census register, assets, call records, Alipay account and check-in records. Aside from phone numbers, Apps have become a new trap of deceit. A lot of smartphone apps can help you find the route and destination if you let them access your phone's GPS. But even if you give permission, do you know everything they're doing with that information? Four researchers, who are in the Institute of Doctoral Studies Bucharest, wanted to find out, so they modified the Android mobile phone platform to tag all data apps sent from the phone. Then they randomly selected 30 Android apps, choosing only ones that require access to the Internet and access to the phone's GPS, camera or microphone. Meanwhile, researchers take use of big data analytics to analyze the whole data. Finally, it turned out that 15—half the apps—sent the phone's location to third-party advertisers, and a third of the apps showed the phone's unique ID, sometimes along with the phone number and SIM card serial number.