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Which, in my opinion, means that the blame should really go the app developers of these apps. Who are those people that think it is a good idea to send your me
by ar0 8y ago
Which, in my opinion, means that the blame should really go the app developers of these apps.
Who are those people that think it is a good idea to send your medical details (the article also mentions "Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker", which apparently sends whether you may be ovulating to Facebook) to a third-party, let alone Facebook?
(Actually, at least for Android apps there is a answer to who these people are... and there are quite a lot of them: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/trackers/66/ https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/trackers/66/)
- cmroanirgo 8y agoIf this list is really a list of companies sending personal data to FB, then this is rather appalling! It's increasingly obvious that iOS and Android need to restrict network connectivity of apps because it's being seriously abused. Unfortunately this problem is escalating because too few people give a damn about their own privacy, drowning out the voices who do care, deeply, about this issue. A proper user configurable firewall is the obvious answer, but perhaps also adding limits that an app can only phone home to the domain that the app was signed with. I feel that both Apple and Google are deliberately perpetuating this problem for financial gain, and should be held accountable as well. Edit: grammar