How would these cryptocurrency apps with intention or without intention collect your identity?

Straightforward way of collecting your identity is by making a login mandatory to track your altcoins or bitcoins. You might expose your email or even more data if you log into your cryptocurrency app via a social login. We at CoinTracker believe even an optional login introduced by an app to sync data must be anonymous (We’re doing research on this) Another interesting way of getting identity revealed to the app is by offering some sort of promotional discounts or may be even free subscriptions, when you provide a social login like Facebook, Google, etc. We also think, you should not share the app with your friends on Facebook if the app asks special permission for this. If its via direct Facebook app that’s fine, but if the app requires special permission, just tap “No” for it. You could always message your friend about the app, when you really need anyway, so why would you give additional permission for that? Worst case, some apps with your permission, might even take your photographs, collect your social security numbers, etc at login. When this happens you might have to think twice if this the cryptocurrency app you were looking for? Are there any alternatives or will there be any?

Now what, these apps say they don’t expose this data publicly. Are they really mean it? If you had a check on long privacy policy in each and every app. If any sort of law enforces them to reveal these data they are happy to reveal this data without even letting you know, as you have already bound to their privacy policy. So the best way of being private is selecting an app that really does not collect any of the above information. We at CoinTracker: Crypto Portfolio really does that when you track your cryptocurrency portfolio with our mobile apps. We’re also doing research on making the cryptocurrency transactions more secure and easier with our apps. Stay tuned with our blog for more future updates.

Update: One of the primary focuses on introducing Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies is reducing involvement of third parties and provide a high level of privacy to its users. And we’re wondering why do cryptocurrency users need to expose yourself when its intended goal is to do your transactions without exposing. No one still knows the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, do you?