# QR Reader Secure - Privacy-Focused and Secure QR Reader

DevFeed: [QR Reader Secure - Privacy-Focused and Secure QR Reader](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/qr-reader-secure-privacy-focused-and-secure-qr-reader-25548.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.marcogomiero.com/posts/2020/qr-reader-secure-release/>)

Author: Marco Gomiero

Published: 2020-07-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Posts on Marco Gomiero](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/posts-on-marco-gomiero.md>)

Topics: [QR Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/qrcode.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [permission](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/permission.md>), [play-store](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/play-store.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [qr-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/qr-code.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces QR Reader Secure, a simple QR-scanning app developed in response to concerns about intrusive ads and excessive permissions in other QR readers. It requests only camera access, contains no ads or trackers, keeps scanned data on the phone, is free on the Play Store, and is open source on GitHub.

## Source excerpt

Last week my parents asked me to download to their phones a simple QR Reader. So I opened the Play Store and I started to search an easy to use application, without lot's of noise (oh, I mean intrusive ads..) and without ulterior motives. Well, I wandered around the Play Store for an hour without finding an answer. Some apps will require all the imaginable permission only to scan a QR code. Come on, why do you need my contacts and my location for the scanning? 🤬