Yandex.Metro is watching you

Every few minutes Yandex.Metro for Android sends such requests to a Yandex server.



The body of the request shall include:
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• 3 different identifiers: clid, uuid and andoid_id;
• List of mac addresses of surrounding wi-fi access points and signal strength;
• The identifier of the base station opsos indicating the signal strength.

The Yandex service for collecting “statistics” runs in the background when the phone boots and does not require the launch of the application itself to work. The data is sent even if there is a ban on location in the phone settings.

In connection with the above, I would like to ask Yandex a couple of questions:

• How is the constant collection of information about my location related to the operation of your subway map?
• Why do you need around the clock information about my location?

There are also a couple of suggestions:

• Please add an option in the application settings that gives you the opportunity to opt out of your spyware services;
• Use secure communication protocols so that information about the location of millions of your users is not collected by anyone except you on the way to your servers.