Social and location apps are great tools to spot your nearby friends when you want to meet them. But, do you know that those could be also dream apps for creepy men and stalkers who pick those apps to check out women around them. These apps expose local and personal information that is sourced from social networks like Facebook and foursquare. Hence, if you are concerned about the privacy and want to be cautious about potential security threats, then you need to be acquainted with following creepy apps that lay out information about women before you could be their unsuspecting target. We have already covered Girls Around Me app that is now ousted by foursquare and Apple iTunes App Store, but that’s not one. Unfortunately, there are some more creepy apps that may capture your image, let people track your location and information without your knowledge.
Security Cam
Compatible to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
Price: $9.99Â
The Security Cam app may sound a portable, useful surveillance tool initially. Look closely, this is another creepy app you need to alert of. The app could be a latent threat to your security. The app lets phone users to take pictures without your knowledge as the iOS device (whether iPhone, iPod touch or iPad) would turn off the screen display. The device would merely look as if it has been lying on a table or ground, however, the truth is that it is actually rolling on its camera and taking pictures and vides. Thus, this app makes it extremely easy to let people spy on you at your work or at café or other public locations.
Creepy app
Creepy is a desktop app, not an Android or iOS app. Being developed by Ioannis Kakavas, Creepy desktop app lets stalkers pull geo-location information from various social networking websites and photo sharing websites. The app makes use of geotagging information from your camera. When you use your Flickr account username and password, the app will demonstrates places and time on maps to show where and when photos were clicked. Thus, this creepy app helps people track you using geotagging information with malicious intention. The app currently supports and retrieves information from Twitter and foursquare.
I think many see these app’s as an opportunity to be more social with their friends, but for the people who work in the fraud world we know this is an opportunity for someone to be stalked, kidnapped, or worse. These apps which seem very harmless are infact a dream for people looking to commit acts other than the apps intended. I’m sure we will hear more and more stories of people who will be put in danger because of apps like this. Smart phones are a great invention, but at what risk? I don’t think they’ve become smart enough to let you know that the person that is say 100 feet away is a threat to your life.
Hey Jey, thanks a ton for sharing 🙂