Clearly, Facebook is doing well when it comes to recovering user information. After numerous scandals on the subject in 2018, 2019 is starting on the same footing. THEWall Street Journalactually conducted the survey by analyzing 70 of the most popular apps on iOS. The investigators of the American publication then found that several of themsend data to Facebook. Even though the user has not installed the Facebook app on their iOS device…
Specifically, 11 apps among these 70 studied regularly send some of their data to the Facebook platform. And this concerns very varied services. For example, in the bundle there is the appFlo,available here on the App Store. This records the user's ovulation cycle in order to help her get pregnant. This menstrual cycle data would be sent to Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Same for the appFrequencyCardiac,available here on the App Store, which, as its name suggests, retrieves rhythm information from the user's heart. Facebook would also collect this information. Other apps in other domains are also in question, such asRealtor,available here on the App Storeand real estate specialist.
The data recovered by the latter can be done soanonymous. But the newspaper report specifies that certain information can also be linked to its owner. Another problem is that these apps rarely tell the user to send such data to Facebook for advertising purposes.
Mark Zuckerberg's social network commented on the publicationfrom the American channel CNBC: “Sharing information across apps on your iPhone or Android device is how mobile advertising works and is industry standard practice”, which could be translated as: “Sharing information between applications on iPhone or Android device is a very practical practice”. standard and inherent to the advertising process.”
Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.
