# Beamy

> This extension helps IT teams discover unknown risky business apps while prioritizing your privacy.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/beamy](https://chrome-stats.com/d/beamy)

## Overview

- **ID:** `beamy`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Beamy
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 2.4.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-03-22
- **First published:** 2024-03-21
- **Size:** 1.35 MB
- **Data as of:** 2024-04-01
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/beamy/)
- **Website:** [https://beamy.io](https://beamy.io/)

## Description

This extension helps IT teams discover unknown risky business apps while prioritizing your privacy.

Beamy Web Browser Extension

Designed to enhance your organization security, this extension helps IT teams discover unknown risky business applications while prioritizing your privacy.  

Business Applications: This extension identifies only business applications.

- Examples of apps that are mapped: Salesforce, HubSpot, MailChimp, and any app that is used for business purposes.
- Examples of apps that are not mapped: Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and any other apps that are only used for personal purposes.

Privacy by design: This extension is specifically built to ensure the highest level of privacy. 

This processing is done locally directly in your browser, ensuring that minimum data is used.

This extension will only send anonymized data that are aggregated to be presented to your internal IT team, and it will

- Never track personal browsing activity
- Never collect data related to personal email addresses
- Never send any personal details or passwords

For more information, please contact your IT team.

Please note that this extension is part of the Beamy SaaS Governance Platform (<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/9acdf001e62db3f6aa2c364022e45df20190402012de939dd603dcb82232c96d/https%3A//www.beamy.io/" rel="nofollow">https://www.beamy.io/</a>) and does not operate independently.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `identity`
- `history`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `idle`

### Host permissions

- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/beamy)