Navigation application for Android-devices "Yandex.Navigator" secret from the owner wrote down all the sounds and conversations that have caught the microphone device. According to the newspaper "Vedomosti", the recording was stopped only when the device has no free memory. Representatives of "Yandex" claim that it was a trivial bug in the update that fixed the same day.

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Navigation application for Android-devices "Yandex.Navigator" secret from the owner wrote down all the sounds and conversations that have caught the microphone device. According to the newspaper "Vedomosti", the recording was stopped only when the device has no free memory. Representatives of "Yandex" claim that it was a trivial bug in the update that fixed the same day.

an Unhealthy interest in "Yandex.Navigator" to record sound noticed on Monday with the next update. In the audio file stream.wav one of the users found a record of everything that happened to him over the past day. Yandex assures that the file from the devices were not sent. On the same day, the company corrected the error and advised to update the application once again.

Experts believe that "Yandex" really was not going to follow their users: the file was not hidden, was stored in uncompressed form and quickly "scored" memory, that it was hard not to notice. Russian company apologized to all who have been affected by a problem with the Navigator.