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Posted on 09/10/2019 9:12:18 PM PDT by upchuck
An investigation from privacy advocacy group Privacy International found that period-tracking apps downloaded by millions of users shared alarmingly sensitive data with Facebook and other third-parties, including users' drinking habits, medical symptoms, and when they last had sex.
Privacy International's report identified five apps which shared data with Facebook. It focused on two apps in particular — Maya and MIA Fem — which the report said were sharing alarming amounts of detail.
Maya has over five million downloads on the Google Play Store, while MIA Fem has one million.
Both apps had Facebook's Software Development Kit (SDK). SDK lets apps use certain features, for example allowing users to log in via Facebook, and helps the apps manage their data. In return, the apps feed data back to Facebook.
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I am stunned, truly stunned. LOL
Users of Google applications should have no expectations of privacy.
So did it get a like or not?
people seem to just have no lives.....I mean,spending on this time on facebook, et al......who does that other than people that have little real interest in the true world...
Hmmm, my son is 26...
Fits in nicely with this article: “Joker’ malware was hidden on dozens of Android apps”
https://nypost.com/2019/09/10/joker-malware-was-hidden-on-dozens-of-android-apps/amp/
The article gives a list of apps affected and mentions that it’s probably Chinese. It doesn’t seem to have many infections in the US or Canada, with most of them in the EU and Asia.
Fits in nicely with this article: “Joker’ malware was hidden on dozens of Android apps”
https://nypost.com/2019/09/10/joker-malware-was-hidden-on-dozens-of-android-apps/amp/
The article gives a list of apps affected and mentions that it’s probably Chinese. It doesn’t seem to have many infections in the US or Canada, with most of them in the EU and Asia.
Reason number Zillion why I won’t ever have a Siri or Alexis in my home if it is my decision.
Meanwhile, these same folks posted a status update: “Just had period sex. Going out for Taco Bell.”
“MIA Fem also passed on inferable data about users’ sex lives because it takes data, e.g. whether they had masturbated recently, and recommends users articles based on this.
Privacy International found MIA Fem passed on which articles had been shown to users, for example one entitled “Masturbation: What You Want to Know But Are Ashamed to Ask.” The report repeatedly voices the concern that any and all of this data could potentially be used by advertisers.“
Maybe not use online apps for sex / genitalia info tracking.
Users of Google applications should have no expectations of privacy.
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I said the same thing at the dinner table tonight about google and Facebook.
NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY.
Now, if you understand that...and you are willing to accept that...then you have no complaint. Which is OK.
But when I realized that google was intruding on my life, I stopped using it as a search method. I use StartPage, which uses google for info, but claims to be very private and I choose to believe it.
I, however, DO have a complaint about lack of privacy and therefore, I have never gone to FACEBOOK. AND I NEVER WILL.
geeze...this is scary...
and i was just trying to use a bastardized punchline from an old joke.
next time I’ll read the article....
I’ve never had Facebook, but FB obviously has my email & phone number. It’s obvious from the spam mail & texts I receive.
The story says there were five apps but only two are named. Apparently, these are apps for women to document when they’ve had their menstrual period and other info women choose to share with the app.
I don’t understand why the other three apps aren’t named. Can’t journalists do their jobs anymore?
I suppose one way to fight back is for everyone to download the apps and then lie like crazy about their sexual history. Garbage in, garbage out.
How that happens is covered in the article.
And insidious.
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