A few days ago a colleague came into my office with his brand new table and told my that he installed the same Android app as me. WUT? How does he know what app I installed on my personnal smartphone ?<p>He showed me that, in his tablet google play, my icon and name was displayed under the app description. When I clicked on my icon, I could see other apps that I installed. WTF?<p>He then explains me that he added me in one of his Google+ circles. I then checked all my confidentiality otions and my G+ account. Everything is set to undisclose any information. I created the G+ account to lock my nae as I did with other social service. I&#x27;m not into exhibitionism. I don&#x27;t publish any information on these services. I don&#x27;t have my colleague in my cirles. G+ allows to see who added me in his circles. I saw that my Boss added me in his G+ account. There is another colleague and a totally unknown woman in a city 800 km away !?<p>I recently installed Waze on my Android smartphone. Every time it started it would display a dialog inviting me to rate the app. To get rid of the dialog and because I find it a good app, I rated it five star.<p>Today, I checked again on my colleague&#x27;s tablet if anything changed after I reviewed my confidentiality options. The Waze app was added to the list. So rating an app is enough for your G+ followers to see it.<p>On this day I decide to never rate an Android app anymore. I don&#x27;t find it right that my colleague and my Boss are notified on my apps rating on my personnal phone. This is a tool for spying.<p>I&#x27;m sorry for Android app developpers and user who would find the feedbak usefull. But things are getting Orwellian at Google. This is the type of problems you get with a monopole.
Why I will never again rate an Android app