You guys must all be idiots. These apps can’t send anything to Facebook if you don’t use Facebook to login to these apps. This is not a iOS or android issue, it’s an issue when you use Facebook to authenticate on any third party application or website. Ridiculous how everyone is so clueless but still chime in with non sense.DO NOT LOG INTO APPS WITH YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
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Some iOS Apps Sending an Alarming Amount of Data to Facebook and Most Users Are Unaware
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You didn't bother reading the article. Be careful who you call idiots, after making the post you did.
Apple needs to update its guidelines in that data collected from an app needs to be disclosed, and cannot be given to a third party. It's almost impossible, but the *app* should not be a pipeline to another company.
Facebook can get stuffed. I hope it gets regulated to death, literally and figuratively.
Facebook can get stuffed. I hope it gets regulated to death, literally and figuratively.
They can send and do send data to Facebook even if you are not using Facebook. Facebook can still use that data to build profiles of people to better target you with ads.
There are no holes in the Walled Garden. It's just that some developers granted access to the Wall Garden are not living up to the standards. And surely, sooner or later they will be kicked out.
Of COURSE Politicians care! When it comes to Facebook, they care 12.5 million dollars worth. How much does the average American contribute to a political cause? $25, $50 a year? Money talks, very very loudly. Expect a few statements of outrage followed by some very discrete lobbyist meetings where Facebook offers them even more money. Guess how those politicians will vote.
Glad I woke up 9 years ago and closed my FaceBook account. I have not missed it a single time since then. Wake up people. Wake the hell up!
It's showing for me but I don't view many articles from that site, which might be why. Typically you can get around this on most sites by copying the URL, starting a private browsing session, and pasting the URL back into the bar. This clears the tracking cookies and other stuff they use to see who has visited their site too many times.
https://flo.health/privacy-policy
I hate class actions but it may be warranted. While the class won't really get anything out of it, at least the defendants could be buried in legal fees and fines.
I am literally the only family member that has never had a Facebook account nor will I ever. When Facebook first started up I warned the whole family Not to use it. No one listened 
As for needing Facebook to stay in touch, that’s just silly. We already had US Mail, email, text, and calling..not to mention FaceTime and Skype. You can even catch up with family face to face...Facebook is not necessary. As much as I love my family I do not need to know their every move 24/7. My family used to think I was being too cautious, now even they are concerned.
As for needing Facebook to stay in touch, that’s just silly. We already had US Mail, email, text, and calling..not to mention FaceTime and Skype. You can even catch up with family face to face...Facebook is not necessary. As much as I love my family I do not need to know their every move 24/7. My family used to think I was being too cautious, now even they are concerned.
In my opinion, Apple should revamp the app garden wall and refuse to approve any app that uses Google or Facebook analytics, by sending user information to a third party. No information should be leaving the app at any time unless the user has given express and specific permission.
Facebook collects data from apps even if no Facebook account is used to log in and even if the user isn't a member of Facebook. They are able to get info regardless.
Our individual acts of defiance don't really mean much to facebook. 2.3 Billion monthly users. 1.1 Billion daily mobile users... other assorted absurd stats. Generally speaking, people don't care.
Why any sane, rational person continues to have anything to do with Facebook is beyond me.
I have a very personal reason to despise Facebook and all its works. A few years ago, my wife got suckered into 'interacting' with a guy on FB, which cost us a stupid amount of money and very nearly our marriage. Where did the fault lie - with me, him, her or FB? I don't know, but I do know that without FB and its insidious way of invading your life, your privacy, your home, it wouldn't have happened. She still uses it, but I won't have anything to do with it and am deeply suspicious of any interaction with it. She'll still happily spend all day on it, and then tell me about this group or that person and how she feels angry or attacked or pissed off by this or that, how many or few likes this or that gets and I'm supposed to be think it important or feign interest? It brings no joy but only anger, frustration, distrust and nastiness into our lives. Do I have the right to forbid another adult from using something or imposing my will or opinions on that person? Of course not. So I suppose I must tolerate it, but it really bites.
A toilet is a useful device that takes human excrement and removes it from your life. Facebook is a Teliot - a device that finds human excrement pipes it back directly into your home.
I can see two options - do not have anything to do with FB or any product or service that does, or use it, but in a totally random way, so that the data generated is meaningless and of no value. It would take a large proportion of users to do this to make this strategy pay off, but imagine if the purchasers of FB data discovered that it was worthless... we can dream, but in the meantime, the only sensible course of action is to delete it from your life. As far as FB is concerned you are data, and data is their product. Stop supplying them with what they need. Do something - anything - else, but don't do Facebook. No good will come of it.
https://labs.rs/en/the-human-fabric-of-the-facebook-pyramid/
End of bitter, personal rant./
I have a very personal reason to despise Facebook and all its works. A few years ago, my wife got suckered into 'interacting' with a guy on FB, which cost us a stupid amount of money and very nearly our marriage. Where did the fault lie - with me, him, her or FB? I don't know, but I do know that without FB and its insidious way of invading your life, your privacy, your home, it wouldn't have happened. She still uses it, but I won't have anything to do with it and am deeply suspicious of any interaction with it. She'll still happily spend all day on it, and then tell me about this group or that person and how she feels angry or attacked or pissed off by this or that, how many or few likes this or that gets and I'm supposed to be think it important or feign interest? It brings no joy but only anger, frustration, distrust and nastiness into our lives. Do I have the right to forbid another adult from using something or imposing my will or opinions on that person? Of course not. So I suppose I must tolerate it, but it really bites.
A toilet is a useful device that takes human excrement and removes it from your life. Facebook is a Teliot - a device that finds human excrement pipes it back directly into your home.
I can see two options - do not have anything to do with FB or any product or service that does, or use it, but in a totally random way, so that the data generated is meaningless and of no value. It would take a large proportion of users to do this to make this strategy pay off, but imagine if the purchasers of FB data discovered that it was worthless... we can dream, but in the meantime, the only sensible course of action is to delete it from your life. As far as FB is concerned you are data, and data is their product. Stop supplying them with what they need. Do something - anything - else, but don't do Facebook. No good will come of it.
https://labs.rs/en/the-human-fabric-of-the-facebook-pyramid/
End of bitter, personal rant./
If enough people did this, they would either be forced to make changes, or become irrelevant. Furthermore, there need to be more fines in the billions from the government. It could dwarf the income from tariffs, lol.
Yeah, they just hire a couple thousand people to check all the apps that you have personally approved of before. Sounds like a great idea. I guess you work in Human Resources since you’re so familiar with how easy it is to scale your staff that way.
The amount of people without a phone number, an email account or an address to visit is probably rather low. People managed to stay in contact prior to Facebook - they just didn’t share as much nonsense with each other.
They should have a thread here where users can name apps that perform this kind of data collection and distribution. Them people using the app could give it a bad rating and delete it.
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But it would take years to resolve and fund for that matter. I think the smart thing to do is dump the apps that send your personal data to Facebook or any other website. I think it may be time to purge some of my apps.
I have those 3 sites blocked in 1BlockerX and the cookies are still present.
It might be social widgets....I had that disabled.
I don't disagree with your latter point, but let's not forget that the "dev shops" who made these apps are the ones using Facebook's (and others') SDKs, implementing hooks in their apps to capture app events and send them to Facebook et al., in many cases without the user's consent or even clear disclosure of what they are doing. They are not just accidentally caught up in all these privacy violations. They are active participants and enablers.
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