Apps sending users’ data to Facebook without their consent

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According to the 35c3 talk[0] by the authors, both SkyScanner and The Weather Channel updated their apps to stop the tracking after the authors told them it was happening.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_android&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;media.ccc.de&#x2F;v&#x2F;35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...</a>

When do we expect the first GDPR challenges to land on Facebook?<p>The law was clearly designed to deal with them. They continue to violate its principles. GDPR delivered tremendous collateral damage to raise these gates. But where is the pay-off? Is there preliminary footwork deploying? Or is Europe distracted by Italy <i>et al</i>?

Apple needs to ban these SDKs from being included in apps. No one reads the privacy policies and they leak data to another party that the user doesn&#x27;t have a relationship with.<p>Provide first party services, intermediate between apps and ad networks and&#x2F;or white list a handful of companies to provide these services that are audited and have separate contractual relationships with Apple.<p>I think a good idea would be to stipulate to Facebook, Google, and every purveyor of &quot;analytics&quot; SDKs that they need to serve iOS app developers and their users from EU subsidiaries that are subject to GDPR.

Simple question: We have firewall capability on every computer.<p>I am surprised that we don&#x27;t have a FW on a phone - or an app that can be installed which I can force all traffic from the phone to pass through, with source-app and destination IP&#x2F;App&#x2F;Service - and choose to block the traffic we would like.<p>Are the devices capable of this?

So let&#x27;s see here. There are apps that people download which, in a way, replicate themselves by enticing other people to download them often using some form of psychological engineering. These apps then compromise the person&#x27;s data by streaming it to a server.<p>The word &quot;app&quot; is frequently used, but these sound more like computer viruses with a friendly UI, no?

Can add Agoda to that list.<p>I find it insane how I can visit Agoda in a private tab. Search for hotels. Visit 2 of the hotels. Then switch to Facebook and almost immediately get adverts for exactly those 2 hotels...