Michal Ždanský The Moves app, which works as a tracker and can monitor your activity through the M7 coprocessor, has gained quite a lot of fame. However, it was recently bought by Facebook and we can already see the fruits of this acquisition, as well as the real reason why the company running the world's largest social network bought the app. This week the app changed its privacy document.
As recently as last week, it stated that the company would not share users' personal data with third parties without the user's knowledge, unless requested by the police. The developers of Moves were worried that this policy would not change even after the acquisition. Unfortunately, the opposite is true and this week the privacy policy was updated:
"We may share information, including personally identifiable information, with our affiliates (companies that are part of our corporate group of companies including but not limited to Facebook) to better provide, understand and improve our services."
In other words, Facebook wants to use personal data, mainly geolocation and activity information, to better target advertising. The position of Facebook has also changed, saying through its spokesperson that the companies plan to share data with each other, although it was said shortly after the acquisition that the data would not be shared between the two companies. Since the app tracks both your activity and location even while running in the background, privacy concerns are valid. After all, the director of the American Center for Digital Democracy plans to present this problem to the Federal Telecommunications Authority.
After all, concerns about privacy also prevail in other acquisitions by Facebook, WhatsApp or Oculus VR. So if you use the Moves app and don't want to share your personal data, including geolocation, with Facebook, the best thing to do is to delete the app and find another tracker in the App Store.
Who wrote it???
"The position of Facebook has also changed, saying through its spokesperson that the companies plan to share data with each other, although just after the acquisition it was said that the data would not be shared between the two companies."
the opinion that it communicated?
data shared?
What are you waiting for? Mr. Žd´ánský, that is Rembrandt among journalists on this server. Not only for the really refined Czech, but also for his translation-deduction procedures. By the way, he's also the only one who deletes posts that he doesn't like...
and that's exactly why I don't use Moves or Facebook. I'm not paranoid, but be careful about your electronic footprints, especially in public. They will stay after every effort. Google your future employer, law firm, and a lot of entities you wouldn't expect.
As soon as the app informed me of the privacy change, I deleted the data and deleted the app. Facebook will ruin everything for us. :(
I rather see it as just an "extra way" to focus on you.. I don't deal with it anymore.. they still see you :D
Plugin ghostery and knows nothing about you. If you don't voluntarily tell them everything yourself directly on FB.
sure, just give them all for free. They make a good living off of you and you still have your private life in hell. Google does the same, and anyone who has read Axel Springer's open letter in Dotyk 17 will at least think twice.
and I know how to fight against it?? I don't know... :) and I also thought when I bought it and the rules of use changed and I don't agree with them, so can I ask for the money back or am I wrong???
I know..not to use. Money back can be requested back, just write to Apple the reason. So far, they have always returned every penny.
in the report, it said that I bought the application 90 days ago, so it's probably not possible?? jj apple returns it like nothing.. sometimes I don't even give a reason.. they probably have an awful lot :D
I would hang Zuckeberg by the balls in a draft for how he screws everything up... Idiot.
moves account deleted - now a facebook zombie