Period-tracking apps were sharing sensitive data to Facebook, including when users last had sex

Business Insider ^ | Sept 10, 2019 | Isobel Asher Hamilton

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Reminds me of Zuckerberg's "remedy" for revenge porn:

Facebook Wants Your Nude Photos; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

[HollyB]

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.

[rfp1234]

Who’d want to use such apps? Caveat emptor.

[immadashell]

incredibly specific and sensitive information was also passed along.

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.

[SaveFerris]

The world is not there. Yet.

Revelation 13:16-18 King James Version

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

[SaveFerris]

I was gonna get one particular app.

Then I read about all the 1-star ratings.

AND they'd like your Drivers Licence too.

[monkeyshine]

Can it tell which partner was involved? Maybe it can be used in paternity suits?

[Tax-chick]

Astounding. I’ll bet all the information from my husband’s fitness beeber is out there for anyone to grab, too.

[outofsalt]

"download the apps and then lie like crazy about their sexual history."

Why would I need an app to lie about my sex life?)

[ThunderSleeps]

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.

[Buckeye McFrog]

On the other hand the PMS alert texts were an outstanding feature.

[OrangeHoof]

Why would I need an app to lie about my sex life?

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.

[Spitzensparkin1]

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”.
/s

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