The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on February 4 declared a tender, within which the Contractor for 63 million rubles will need to "finalize the official mobile application" of the Office. The contractor will be selected 01.02.21. The main task facing the performer is integrating the Antimostelennik function in the application, with which users will be able to receive a notice of the call of attackers.
In the tender documents, the most interesting thing is that it says that for the correct and most correct operation of the Module "Antimospen" to all users need to provide access to the smartphone's telephone book. If you receive a call to the device, the Module "Antimospace" will compare the number of causing fraudulent numbers that have law enforcement agencies, after which a person will receive a warning about a possible call of an attacker if a match occurs.
The mobile application of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation was presented in 2014. The last time the update for it was done in 2019. With it, users can now get the address of the nearest police department, information about criminals wanted, and also cause police officers. The total number of downloads of the application in Google Play is about 500,000.
Daniel Chernov, Head of the Solar Appscreener Center, commented on the news: "The ability to recognize fraudulent calls and warning users about it is an excellent initiative that will ensure protection. But it is not clear to me why the application needs access to a person's telephone book. If it will define only fraudulent calls, the user list of contacts will not need. The only explanation is the ability to identify the phone numbers of intruders who have already saved in their contacts. "
Alexey Drozd, director of the information security department of SearchInform, said: "In fact, the Ministry of Internal Affairs adds the functionality of the functionality, which is already there in other popular similar services - for example, in Get Contact or in WHO Calls. With their help, users can find out how they are recorded in the phone books of their friends. And such services, in fact, collect database of user telephone numbers. Perhaps the Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to do the same. "
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