exposed without their knowledge or consent joining us now is just this is investigative journalist ben swan ben thank you so much for joining us today i think the 1st and most part question here is now where it can be annoying sure but is it actually harmful to the user in most cases it's just kind of sits on your phone and takes up space or is there more to it that we're missing no i think there is more to it than that and it's the problem that we have with so many apps guys over and over we see this problem right which is that many applications go into your system and essentially take information from you that it's they're not really supposed to have or in many cases do. even really need to have so what you'll find is that some of these pre-installed apps will automatically access your camera features your pictures your videos 'd your contacts lists even though you haven't given permission to do so or again it might not necessarily need to do so because we all know that the real product everyone's after is data and so what we see with bloatware is that and i'm sure you guys have experience as

and facial stands by the united states government at our borders investigative journalist ben swan ben now yeah i know that you like myself have recently traveled internationally were you going to ask were you subject to having your face scanned upon departure the way i was and was there any signage or helpful notices informing that you that as a u.s. citizen you can opt out of these scans if you want to know i here's what was interesting so i actually went to australia leaving the u.s. i did not have to go through any kind of face scan but coming back into the country i did have to go through it when we landed we actually landed in l.a. accident l.a.x. they forced us to go through a facial scanning because they didn't even make us fill out the forms you know when you get on a plane and you're traveling into the country or into a new country coming out here you have to fill out a customs form right and then submit the form but they said you don't need to submit the forms but we got off the plane we did have to have our faces scanned so our faces rescanned in order to go through that pr