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Well-liked Apps Stop Sharing Knowledge With Fb

Well-liked well being and health apps scrambled to prevent sending delicate private knowledge to Fb after The Wall Side road Magazine reported Friday many have been transmitting detailed details about subjects together with their customers’ weight and menstrual cycles.
Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users’ weight and menstrual cycles.

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Wsj has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "The Department of Justice is investigating whether television station owners violated antitrust law in ways that inflated local television advertising prices". (July 26, 2018)
  2. "The Wall Street Journal’s testing of over 70 applications that handle sensitive information turned up 11 that were sending at least some data to Facebook. Five have now reduced or ended data transfers to the social media giant". (February 25, 2019)
  3. "TikTok, as a deal with Oracle nears, is working to settle a privacy suit filed on behalf of users as young as eight years old, WSJ Pros David Uberti reports. The complaints claim that TikTok sends user data to Chinese servers and improperly collects voiceprints and face geometry scans to recommend content based on users age, race and physical attractiveness". (September 15, 2020)
  4. "A survey found just 52% of employees were optimistic about Facebook’s future, down from 84% a year earlier. The darker mood comes amid a dropping share price and disclosures of privacy violations". (November 14, 2018)
  5. "Fiat Chrysler‘s pursuit of a merger with Renault is the latest deal motivated by corporate executives’ desire to avoid becoming the next Blockbuster Video". (May 29, 2019)
  6. "Facebook banned an array of personalities whose views it deemed too inflammatory to be shared on its social network, including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, far-right talk-show host Alex Jones and conservative Jewish activist Laura Loomer". (May 2, 2019)
  7. "The move is the company’s most concrete response so far to pressure to dial back the feature after it was used to broadcast the attack on 51 people at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand". (May 15, 2019)
  8. "Beijing is preparing to launch its own cryptocurrency, a move that could potentially lead to greater state control. WSJs Steven Russolillo takes a look at official documents to find out more about China's plans". (January 2, 2020)
  9. "Facebook and Twitter have taken different stances on moderating President Trump on their platforms. It's the latest controversy in an ongoing debate about the responsibility tech companies have in policing speech online". (June 8, 2020)
  10. "Make no mistake: The fundamental premise of Facebook’s business—gathering more data about us in order to reach us with more-targeted and effective advertising—will stay the same, writes Christopher Mims". (March 7, 2019)
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