{"id":597,"date":"2014-12-09T18:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T02:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T02:25:22","slug":"blackphone-to-launch-store-with-apps-that-dont-spy-on-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Blackphone to Launch Store With Apps That Don\u2019t Spy on Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/blackphone-1-630x419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-598\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/blackphone-1-630x419.jpg\" alt=\"blackphone-1-630x419\" width=\"630\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blackphone, often billed as the world\u2019s most secure smartphone, recently announced its own app store. The apps will be individually vetted by the Blackphone team, CEO\u00a0Toby Weir-Jones explained to\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em> recently, which will make sure that the apps are only asking for appropriate permissions. That means you won\u2019t find games unnecessarily asking for your location or your microphone, simply only to turn around and use that data to sell to advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, Weir-Jones told\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>, isn\u2019t to create another store that will compete with Google Play or the iTunes App Store, but rather one where owners of its phones know that they can turn to find apps that aren\u2019t snooping on them. As such, it likely won\u2019t populate with games. \u201cWe\u2019re much more interested in a private marketplace with quality apps with things that have a broad alignment with our privacy and security focus,\u201d Weir-Jones said, adding that it wants to cater to an audience focused on privacy and usability of quality apps, adding that most of its customers are probably going to be enterprise users.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackphone app store is set to launch in January, Weir-Jones said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/dec\/09\/blackphone-app-store-opens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE GUARDIAN<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackphone, often billed as the world\u2019s most secure smartphone, recently announced its own app store. The apps will be individually vetted by the Blackphone team, CEO\u00a0Toby Weir-Jones explained to\u00a0The Guardian recently, which will make sure that the apps are only asking for appropriate permissions. That means you won\u2019t find games unnecessarily asking for your location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}