Well-liked Apps Stop Sharing Knowledge With Fb

Well-liked well being and health apps scrambled to prevent sending delicate private knowledge to Fb after The Wall Side road Magazine reported Friday many have been transmitting detailed details about subjects together with their customers’ weight and menstrual cycles.
Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users’ weight and menstrual cycles.Original article
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Wsj has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "The Department of Justice is investigating whether television station owners violated antitrust law in ways that inflated local television advertising prices". (July 26, 2018)
  2. "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. Five have now reduced or ended data transfers to the social media giant". (February 25, 2019)
  3. "Beijing is preparing to launch its own cryptocurrency, a move that could potentially lead to greater state control. WSJs Steven Russolillo takes a look at official documents to find out more about China's plans". (January 2, 2020)
  4. "Companies in the commercial trucking and hauling industry in the European Union and some parts of Asia are under pressure to improve safeguards against cyberattacks to comply with a new United Nations regulation, WSJ Pros Catherine Stupp reports from Brussels". (September 14, 2020)
  5. "Make no mistake: The fundamental premise of Facebook’s business—gathering more data about us in order to reach us with more-targeted and effective advertising—will stay the same, writes Christopher Mims". (March 7, 2019)
  6. "A recent cyberattack on one of Freddie Macs vendors showed how large organizations are vulnerable to breaches targeted not only at themselves but also at companies they hire, WSJ Pros Elaine Chen reports. Loan application information was on the vendors system hit by a ransomware attack, prompting Freddie Mac to warn borrowers and regulators about the compromise". (July 21, 2020)
  7. "Colleges are turning to the corporate-marketing playbook to better identify and appeal to prospective adult students, crunching consumer databases to tailor their pitches". (July 14, 2018)
  8. "In her latest Brussels Report, Catherine Stupp examines why some privacy and security incidents take regulators so long to investigate. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, national authorities can work together, and if cases involve consumers in more than one country, multiple regulators can weigh in. Plus, 20 of 27 European Union countries said they dont have enough financial, technical or staff resources". (May 27, 2020)
  9. "The move is the company’s most concrete response so far to pressure to dial back the feature after it was used to broadcast the attack on 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand". (May 15, 2019)
  10. "Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook". (February 22, 2019)
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