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Google has removed the experimental privacy tool for your Android mobile device software, a feature that allowed users to prevent applications collect information like calendar and locations.

change means that those with smartphones using Android 4.4.2, the version of the operating system’s most popular mobile devices in the world presented this week, must provide access to their personal data to use certain applications. A company spokesman said the tool was accidentally included in Android 4.3, the version released last summer.

“We suspect this explanation and we do not in any way justify the fact of removing the property rather than better,” said Peter Eckersley, technology projects director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

website digital rights organization was the first to publish the change through a blog on Friday.

Android users wanting to maintain privacy controls without upgrading your OS to version 4.4.2 may be vulnerable to security risks, said Eckersley.

“For now, users will have to choose between privacy or security of Android devices, but not both,” he said.

access by third

Many third-party applications for Android devices, such as music identification service Shazam and popular flashlight apps for smartphones, require access to personal information that does not always have an obvious connection with the functionality of the tool, as call data and locations.

privacy has become an increasingly important topic as smart phones, which are loaded with personal information of the users become the primary computing device for many of them.

In November, Google agreed to pay a fine of $ 17 million to resolve complaints about that tracked users by placing special digital files in the web browser of your smartphone.

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