Popular apps like Yelp send your data to Facebook even if you aren't on Facebook, privacy watchdog s

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"Popular apps like Yelp send your data to Facebook even if you aren’t on Facebook, privacy watchdog says"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/03/07/facebook-still-automatically-gets-data-yelp-some-other-apps/3089803002/

Some Android apps including Yelp continue to send data to Facebook even if the device owner doesn’t have a Facebook account, according to a privacy watchdog group.

U.K.-based non-profit Privacy International analyzed the data of 34 popular Android apps with 10 million to 500 million installs. In a December report, it found that two-thirds, or 23, apps automatically sent data to Facebook. While some apps have since been corrected, not all have, Privacy International said in an updated report.

Android versions of Yelp, job search app Indeed, language app Duolingo, the King James Bible app and Muslim prayer apps Qibla Connect and Muslim Pro continue to send data to Facebook regardless of whether users have an account on the social network or are logged out, according to the report.

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1. Most tech companies are data mining operations

of which we the user have very little control.

Liz Warren is correct in addressing the size/influence of Big Tech.

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2. Yep, definitely!!! n/t

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3. What if you don't use any of them?

Seriously, I have no accts with any of them, don't use a phone that has apps and stay off anything remotely close to them.

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4. From what I've gathered they capture data just going to yelp, for example,

but I think that's only for phones. It's just hard to tell, there is just so much endless cross-linkage and massive databases. I think most of the problems are with phones and the endless permissions they request if you install an app.