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BBC Cybernews <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The picture painted is one of a digital advertising ecosystem out of control. It goes on to point out that 11 popular health apps, serving tens of millions of users, are (or were) spewing data towards Facebook\u2019s servers with little indication to the user of what is going on.<\/p>\n Worse still, this was happening, the WSJ reported, whether or not the person using the app was even a member of Facebook at all. Imagine that – you\u2019ve decided not to join Facebook, for whatever reason, but Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s company is still receiving information about what you had for dinner last night, and how you\u2019re planning to have sex tomorrow because you\u2019re trying for a baby.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The apps in question used a Facebook-provided tool called App Events to collect and send the information back. Data from App Events is used to power Facebook\u2019s advertising algorithms, though the company insists it wouldn\u2019t use sensitive data for this (we can\u2019t verify that, of course). Developers would use App Events to track how users use their app – something which can be used to power target advertising.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The company has a standard list of App Events that it provides to every developer that wants to use them. On top of that, developers can also create Custom Events, tailored to their app\u2019s specific needs. In Facebook\u2019s policies for how to use Custom Events, it states that developers shouldn\u2019t use Custom Events to gather and send back sensitive data.<\/p>\n But, that\u2019s what those 11 apps supposedly did, according to the Wall Street Journal’s testing. One of them, Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker, was collecting and sending data about women\u2019s ovulation cycles, periods and whether or not they were trying to become pregnant. Of course, women were willingly putting this information into the app – as that was its purpose – but most were surely unaware of how it was being passed on.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-47341533<\/a><\/p>\n On Friday, the Wall Street Journal ran a gobsmacking story<\/i><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/you-give-apps-sensitive-personal-information-then-they-tell-facebook-11550851636<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last weekend. Other apps know users\u2019 body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles or pregnancy status.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.<\/strong> BBC Cybernews \u00ab\u00a0The picture painted is one of a digital advertising ecosystem out of control. It goes on to point out that 11 popular health apps, serving tens of millions of users, are (or were) spewing data towards Facebook\u2019s servers with little indication to the user of what is going on. Worse still, this was … Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ALXt-FG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/werle.pro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; \u2018This is a big mess\u2019\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"