as informed in Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook Inc. after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users' weight and menstrual cycles. Since Friday, at least four of the apps that the Journal had identified and contacted as part of its reporting issued updates to cut off transmission of sensitive data to Facebook, a new round of testing showed Sunday. The apps that made the change include Flo Health...
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Eleven Popular Apps That Shared Data With Facebook
The Wall Street Journal's testing of over 70 applications that handle sensitive information turned up 11 that were sending at least some data to Facebook Inc. One had completely stopped doing so after being contacted by the Journal but before Friday's story. Since the report, four more have reduced or removed transfers of data to Facebook as well. Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker16.1...Report: 11 iPhone Apps Sending Sensitive Data to Facebook
As it stated in According to a new investigation, almost a dozen iOS apps for iPhones and iPads are sending sensitive personal user data to Facebook. A new investigation has revealed that 11 iOS applications are sending sensitive personal data to Facebook. This sensitive data included personal information such as weight, BMI, menstrual cycles, and sexual activity. The application has since stopped sending personal data to Facebook. stopped sending Facebook sensitive personal information, Sunday's test showed.collected by :Roy Mark
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