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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
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It looks like app developers have found it lucrative to package up info about their users, and share it with Facebook. Note: the apps do this
regardless of whether you are a Facebook user.
Increasingly, apps grab info they have no business needing, such as your location at the time you use the app.
To: PapaBear3625
And one of the biggest customers for all that personal data which Facebook and other tech giants collect about you? The Deep State, via the
PRISM program:
Documents indicate that PRISM is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports", and it accounts for 91% of the NSA's internet traffic acquired under FISA section 702 authority."
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:23:34 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: PapaBear3625
Freepers who have the Outline app can use it to avoid the WSJ paywall.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:25:10 AM PST
by
upchuck
(... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
To: PapaBear3625
Which are the apps that do this?
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:26:19 AM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: PapaBear3625; a fool in paradise; acapesket; Baynative; beef; BullDog108; Califreak; cgbg; ...
This is the Facebook Is Evil ping list.
If you'd like to be on or off this list, please click Private Reply below and drop me a FReepmail.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:26:27 AM PST
by
upchuck
(... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
To: PapaBear3625
Hey, FB, I’m a single 28 year old billionaire, 6’6”, 204 lbs., tanned, a 6 pack and very large hands.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:27:56 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
To: bgill
...and a predisposition to exaggerate. LOL
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; dayglored
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:38:00 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: upchuck
If you go via the link currently on Drudge, you avoid the paywall.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:40:49 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: PapaBear3625
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps
</explanation>
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:43:47 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: coloradan
In the Journals testing, Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor, the most popular heart-rate app on Apples iOS, made by California-based Azumio Inc., sent a users heart rate to Facebook immediately after it was recorded. Other apps listed in the article: "Flo Health Inc.s Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker" (tells facebook about ovulation events and intent to get pregnant); realtor.com tells about houses you've expressed interest in (which also gives clues about your financial status);
Facebook provides a helpful software development kit to app developers, which as a byproduct apparently results in info being sent to Facebook.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:48:32 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:48:43 AM PST
by
Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: PapaBear3625
The issue for many people is that we have no relationship with facebook and have never agreed to any tos. What right do they have to invade our privacy or accumulate data on us? When others give them their contact lists, fakebook uses that to acquire our info and then tie it to all other data they acquire. I do not give consent and have never given fakebook consent to use my info. To me this is the most abusive violation of privacy and this needs to stop.
To: PapaBear3625
The government is not supposed to establish huge databases on the public - fears of “big brother.” It doesn’t have to. All it has to do is search in the databases that have already been established: “credit” “bureaus”, facebook, google, twatter, and lo and behold there is everything that anyone could possibly want to know, including SSN, DOB, sex, skin color, salary, jobs, home address, etc.
We are already under the iron hand of big brother.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:52:20 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: PapaBear3625
After reading the article, I like my old-fashioned flip phone even more. No apps for me.
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posted on
02/23/2019 7:55:34 AM PST
by
upchuck
(... to be right with God has often meant to be wrong with man. ~ Steve Schmutzer)
To: PapaBear3625
Whats an app? I know, its just that I hate smart phones. :<((((
To: I want the USA back
Just wait until the push us to digital money.
They won’t need an army when all they have to do is shut down your bank accounts.
Try to explain that to normal people and they will think you’re crazy.
To: PapaBear3625
There’s plenty other ways for that information to be gathered, so while Facebook IS evil, avoiding FB is not a panacea. I don’t use the FB app, and only view FB pages on a PC like any other web page, which doesn’t eliminate the spying either, but it minimizes it.
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posted on
02/23/2019 8:02:44 AM PST
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: upchuck
Roger that, big time !
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posted on
02/23/2019 8:14:56 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: upchuck
Yes, but if you use a real computer google etc. will also sell your data.
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posted on
02/23/2019 8:21:16 AM PST
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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