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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Think About The Users</h1>
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2019-07-17
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/privacy/">#privacy</a>
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<p>Think how the data you're collecting from your users will be used -- this is
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more prevalent on these days, where "privacy" is a premium.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span>
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<p>I once had a discussion with a CTO about collecting the user IMEI on our
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mobile app. Basically, there was no use case for capturing that information
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yet but, as he put at the time, "We may want to know if one user uses two
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phones, or if two users use the same phone". I raised the fact that we didn't
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need this information and, besides that, it felt like we were invading the
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users privacy. He still decided to go ahead. My answer: "I'll do it, but I
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want to point that I'm not happy with it."</p>
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<p>In the end, the store blocked the app... because we were capturing the IMEI.</p>
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<p>But there are cases and cases. If you really <em>really</em> need to capture user
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information, be sure to protect it against unauthorized use, be it by external
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forces (someone found a way to attack your data) or internal (some disgruntled
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colleague decided to take the data from your users with them).</p>
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<p>And be sure, there <em>will</em> be a leak at some point, it's just a matter of time.
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If you can, the best way to protect your users data is to never capture it.
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When a flaw on your system is found or when some colleague leaves the company
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in bad terms, there will be no data to expose to the world, anyway. You can't
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be more secure than this.</p>
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<< <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/debuggers">Debuggers Are Overrated</a>
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<a href="/books/things-i-learnt/integration-tests">Unit Tests Are Good, Integration Tests Are Gooder</a> >>
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