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Ahem. That's just Facebook Analytics. Yes, it should be mentioned in the privacy policy, especially if they operate in countries under the GDPR (they do). But having a go at Zoom on this ground is unfair, given many developers do the exact same thing.
Reminder: The NextDNS iOS app allows you to monitor and block these types of requests from all of your apps, via their DNS logging/filtering. (You can also configure the retention on the DNS logging, so as to not cause more toxic waste data.) I can't recommend it enough. Until/unless we get something like Little Snitch for the phone (are you listening, Apple?!), this is the next best thing.
Facebook is also ad & analytics network. You can replace facebook, with any ad/analytics network and it will still be true. Probably vice’s mobile app, or website, or any other app with ads, sharing this information. Problem is trying to create fake news like this, with using popular names like zoom and facebook. (When I mean fake news, this is not news at all, things you can see on google analytics vs this is not ev…
Please don't misuse the term "fake news." Fake news has a specific meaning: false stories that have no basis in fact but have tantalizing headlines meant to attract attention. Attempting to change the meaning of the term dilutes its importance and introduces unnecessary confusion.
Reminder: The NextDNS iOS app allows you to monitor and block these types of requests from all of your apps, via their DNS logging/filtering. (You can also configure the retention on the DNS logging, so as to not cause more toxic waste data.) I can't recommend it enough. Until/unless we get something like Little Snitch for the phone (are you listening, Apple?!), this is the next best thing.
Are there any guides for running your own setup with similar filtering functionality? Not keen to run all my traffic through some unknown VPN.
Even if you don't log in. The Facebook SDK sends data back.
Hook your device up to an intercepting proxy and start up a few apps. 99% of them do this.
I really wish Apple would put an end to this.
Ahem. That's just Facebook Analytics. Yes, it should be mentioned in the privacy policy, especially if they operate in countries under the GDPR (they do). But having a go at Zoom on this ground is unfair, given many developers do the exact same thing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any guides for running your own setup with similar filtering functionality? Not keen to run all my traffic through some unknown VPN.
NextDNS doesn't send the traffic, just DNS (and, entirely encrypted via DoH, unlike normal DNS), but if you're concerned about it, something like pi-hole does much the same thing, and is self-contained/self-hosted.
Facebook is also ad & analytics network. You can replace facebook, with any ad/analytics network and it will still be true. Probably vice’s mobile app, or website, or any other app with ads, sharing this information. Problem is trying to create fake news like this, with using popular names like zoom and facebook. (When I mean fake news, this is not news at all, things you can see on google analytics vs this is not ev…
Please don't misuse the term "fake news." Fake news has a specific meaning: false stories that have no basis in fact but have tantalizing headlines meant to attract attention. Attempting to change the meaning of the term dilutes its importance and introduces unnecessary confusion.
Even when reading the article, author is going between two sides, but considering headline and sub-headline, it is obvious it is at least clickbait and biased.
- "Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account" + "This sort of data transfer is not uncommon, especially for Facebook; plenty of apps use Facebook's software development kits (SDK) as a means to implement features into their apps more easily, which also has the effect of sending information to Facebook." + "I think users can ultimately decide how they feel about Zoom and other apps sending beacons to Facebook, even if there is no direct evidence of sensitive data being shared in current versions,"
- "Zoom's privacy policy isn't explicit about the data transfer to Facebook at all." - "That's shocking. There is nothing in the privacy policy that addresses that," + Zoom's privacy policy says "our third-party service providers, and advertising partners (e.g., Google Ads and Google Analytics) automatically collect some information about you when you use our Products," but does not link this sort of activity to Facebook specifically.