GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:47:27 +0000

The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Mjy_qyNwWEk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:52:59 +0000

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cTLgFQQq3iM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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