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In December 2018, we revealed how some of the most widely used apps in the Google Play store automatically send personal data to Facebook the moment they are launched. That happens even if you don't have a Facebook account or are logged out of the Facebook platform (our talk on the subject is here)
As of Today:
- We have retested all apps in from our original study.
- A number of apps no longer transfer personal data to Facebook the moment a users opens the app.
- However, many apps still exhibit the same behaviour we described in our original report. These apps automatically transfer personal data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app, before people are able to agree or consent. This happens whether people have a Facebook account or not, or whether they are logged into Facebook or not.
In addition, we have also released our testing environment, so that others can expand on our work.
Frederike Kaltheuner, PI's Lead on Corporate Exploitation and Christopher Weatherhead, Technology Officer will be here from 10:30AM UTC0 (GMT) to discuss our research, findings and our environment!
We won't begin answering questions for a little while yet, this AMA will start at 10:30AM GMT (UTC0), this was posted early to allow questions to accumulate
Submitted March 06, 2019 at 05:34AM by PrivacyIntl https://ift.tt/2NHTQDj
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