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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Lol, I know right ?! I was looking thru the article and recalled your post. Thought it would shock you as it did me. Just crazy.
Whod want to use such apps? Caveat emptor.
The reason I have no apps like this is because I have no desire to share ANY information with the outside world. Privacy is a very valuable and scarce commodity.
Astounding. I’ll bet all the information from my husband’s fitness beeber is out there for anyone to grab, too.
Why would I need an app to lie about my sex life?)
Anything you put into a phone app, anything you do online... Best to assume it is being tracked. Putatively for marketing purposes, but you never know which LE and or government agency known by initials is looking over the marketer’s shoulder. You can, if you go to some extraordinary lengths obscure your online activities. But if someone with resources wants to know, they can still figure out a great deal. You can, through modest efforts, isolate a computer from the network and use it. I would not trust any information on a phone. Funny story. My company, which is big enough and tech savvy enough to know what they are doing... will not discuss propriety information nor contract pricing information over a phone line, any phone line, direct or conference call- if there is a cell phone on the line. Hmm. Seems they believe any/every cell phone can be compromised.
On the other hand the PMS alert texts were an outstanding feature.
If enough people did this, it would foul up the data these people are sending to Facebook, making it unreliable and useless.
Sort of like lying to pollsters so they will think Democrats are better off than they really are so when Republicans win, the pollsters have to explain why their data was bad.
Buckeye McFrog wrote:
“On the other hand the PMS alert texts were an outstanding feature.”
An alert to everyone in their address book, yeah, that would be useful maybe even a “public service”.
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