Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 8:17 AM UTC

licebmi__at__ wrote: post #283

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #78

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Insurance companies have incentives to get better data than their competitors, so they can offer less expensive coverage to lower risk people and leave the competing insurance companies with all the higher risk people. Until the competitors do the same thing. Then you're all just offering less expensive coverage to most of your customers and making less money. (That also tends to cause trouble for higher risk patient…

In your proposed scenario, I find hard to believe the insurance companies won't form a cartel, keep the prices on the low risk customers, and price out the high risk customers. Somehow I don't believe the explanation.

Post by randomsearch » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 8:26 AM UTC

qwtel wrote: post #299

More breaking news: Almost every website sends data to google, even if you don't have a google account. Singling out Facebook as the privacy nemesis while giving a free pass to "cute" conglomerates like Google reeks of class hatred and flavor-of-the-month-style pseudo journalism. Opening vice.com link will send data to Google.

Post by r-w » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 8:31 AM UTC

Legogris wrote: post #181

arielm wrote: post #101

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We (Appfigures) are scanning apps for SDKs so we know which trackers, analytics, location trackers apps are using. We’re working on a way to make that data accessible to app developers so they can learn from competitors, but having a simple way to tell if an app tracks you that doesn’t require signing up or anything like that could be an interesting idea. Would you actually check an app before downloading/using it?

Personally, I'd want to have the source and run that software myself - how else could I trust that the app developer didn't bribe you or find an easy way to subvert your detection?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 9:48 AM UTC

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #249

yborg wrote: post #232

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You're forgetting the 90% market share part.

Apple doesn't have >90% market share for iOS app stores? Who is their competition? You can't run an Android app on iOS. There are no iOS apps on Amazon or Google Play. That makes it a separate market.

Post by xenonite » Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 10:01 AM UTC

justlexi93 wrote: post #253

The very idea of sending someone's data to anywhere without explicit permission SHOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW.