Saturday, 23 February 2019

Facebook reportedly gets deeply personal info from some apps, like ovulation times and heart rate

Facebook reportedly gets deeply personal info from some apps, like ovulation times and heart rate

Facebook receives highly personal information from apps that track your health and help you find a new home, testing by The Wall Street Journal found. Facebook can receive this data from certain apps even if the user does not have a Facebook account, according to the Journal. Facebook has already been in hot water concerning issues of consent and user data. Most recently, a TechCrunch report revealed in January that Facebook paid users as young as teenagers to install an app that would allow the company to collect all phone and web activity.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/22/facebook-receives-personal-health-data-from-apps-wsj.html?source=Snapzu

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