Applications alert their users to gathering information for technical support or analysis purposes, and may seem normal to many, but it sometimes conceals malicious intent.
Two technology news websites reported on Thursday that some iPhone applications were "spying on" them.
The "techcrunch" and theappanalyst, that many applications went far in the collection of information, and reached the point of monitoring all the activities that appear on the phone screen, without informing users.
Applications include Air Canada, Abercrombie & Fitch, Expedia.
Both applications say they use an analytical program from Glassbox, which shows exactly what users do on their monitor, which means the possibility of monitoring sensitive information such as a user's credit card number.
A video showed how the credit card information and password of a user are monitored when he enters them on his phone while running one of these applications, and that they can only "spy" when opened by the user.
Last year, a report on some applications running on Android phones also had the ability to record what was happening on the user's screen.
