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You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook
Wall Street Journal ^
| 2/22/2019
| Sam Schechner and Mark Secada
Posted on 02/23/2019 7:18:16 AM PST by PapaBear3625
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last weekend. Other apps know users body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles or pregnancy status.
Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook Inc.
The social-media giant collects intensely personal information from many popular smartphone apps just seconds after users enter it, even if the user has no connection to Facebook, according to testing done by The Wall Street Journal. The apps often send the data without any prominent or specific disclosure, the testing showed.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: evil; facebook; facebookisevil; fakebook; fb; surveillance; zuckerberg
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To: tomkat
I'll match you :)
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posted on
02/23/2019 3:08:37 PM PST
by
upchuck
(... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
To: upchuck
Very nice :-)
My cell use is so prodigious that it costs me ~ $30/year.
Of course, that means having to be able to read a map, foregoing satellite navigation (oh! the huge manatee!).
Also, not walking/driving/sleeping/eating with a 'smart'phone epoxied to the side of my head.
Still, it suits me just fine.
When/if it dies, I'll be on eBay for another one.
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posted on
02/23/2019 3:17:57 PM PST
by
tomkat
To: PapaBear3625
Dear NSA:
I’m sorry my wife and I are boring, hope no one kills themselves when they are reading/watching us.
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posted on
02/23/2019 6:59:48 PM PST
by
Springman
(Rest In Peace YaYa123, Bahbah, and Just Lori.)
To: upchuck
44
posted on
02/23/2019 8:21:42 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: coloradan
“Which are the apps that do this?”
apparently a whole shitpile of them!
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posted on
02/23/2019 8:22:24 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: upchuck
“After reading the article, I like my old-fashioned flip phone even more. No apps for me.”
ditto ...
46
posted on
02/23/2019 8:23:15 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: tomkat
I got that last spring (2018) when I switched from a landline phone to a cell phone. I’d said for years that I’d get a cell phone when the usage got to be less than a landline. Thanks to Consumer Cellular, that day finally arrived. I have no regrets and haven’t looked back.
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posted on
02/24/2019 12:20:07 AM PST
by
upchuck
(... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
To: PapaBear3625
I am using a very slow laptop and at the bottom of the screen I have time to read the comms to the sites I visit. I have seen where the site sends info to facebook. $$$$$$$ I must be very important! I hate to tell them, though, I hate to shop and love the minimalist lifestyle. But they probably figured that out.
48
posted on
02/24/2019 6:03:14 AM PST
by
huldah1776
( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
To: RightGeek
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posted on
02/24/2019 7:52:48 AM PST
by
AJFavish
(www.allanfavish.com)
To: upchuck
When my Motorola Razor finally died last year I also bought that Alcatel flip phone.
To: tomkat
"Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps" Just damn, I feel left out. Gotta get me one of them smart ass phones.
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posted on
02/24/2019 3:05:56 PM PST
by
HangThemHigh
(Entropy is not what it used to be.)
To: desertfreedom765
Try to explain that to normal people and they will think youre crazy.I'd guess that 'normal people' have no idea what is in the bible.
...so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
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posted on
02/24/2019 5:48:56 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: catnipman
After reading the article, I like my old-fashioned flip phone even more. No apps for me.Does anyone WITH a smartphone ever call you on your old phone?
;^)
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posted on
02/24/2019 5:53:01 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: catnipman
Prepaid phones provide better privacy than phones from carriers.
In comparison, a burner provides superior privacy.
However, in light of recent leaks on the US governments domestic spying program,
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posted on
02/24/2019 6:01:51 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
“Does anyone WITH a smartphone ever call you on your old phone?”
very few call me: i don’t give out my number to many ... i mostly make outbound calls ... i like it that way ...
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posted on
02/24/2019 7:28:43 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: catnipman
I am like that too.
But I’d rather text; as that way you have a record.
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posted on
02/25/2019 4:43:25 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; Ernest_at_the_Beach; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
02/25/2019 4:51:51 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: PapaBear3625
I feel sorry for the human that has to review my data. He/She is going to die of boredom.
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posted on
02/25/2019 5:24:40 AM PST
by
BraveMan
To: PapaBear3625
"And the humans, they like this 'bread' of which you speak?"
To: PapaBear3625
I wasn’t involved in setting this up when I worked for Intel but I heard about it.
They got Federal $$$$ to create it.
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posted on
02/25/2019 12:58:19 PM PST
by
Zathras
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