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You Give Apps Delicate Private Data. Then They Inform Fb.

Hundreds of thousands of smartphone customers confess their maximum intimate secrets and techniques to apps, together with non-public well being data. Unbeknown to most of the people, in lots of circumstances that information is being shared with any person else: Fb.
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.

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