Clueful is a privacy enhancing iOS app that was delisted
within a month from the App Store. But now one can get Clueful free for
download in their webpage. The app has data of about more than 100,000 iOS
apps. It enables the users to add comment about the app and also how the data
are being handled by the developers.
Apple is strict in screening apps for bad behavior. But
Clueful is the app that gives information about the activity of the other iOS
apps. That is what the other apps are actually doing with the data, for example
whether the data is used to track user location or read contacts, access the
calendar or just drains the battery. These are some of the little information
that Clueful gives about a app running in the device.
When the app was launched in App Store it was sold for $3.99
but soon after its launch Apple has removed it from the site within a month.
However, Apple didn’t give any specific reason about why Clueful was removed
from the App Store. Also Catalin Cosoi, Chief Security Researcher of
BitDefender declined to comment about its removal from the App Store. According
to Bitdefender about 40 per cent of iOS app tracks the user location, 20 per
cent have access to address book and 60 per cent encrypts data they collect.
Concerned about the demand of the security conscious iOS device users, Clueful
has been released, this time free of cost which can be downloaded from the
official website of Clueful.
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