{"id":118081,"date":"2021-01-05T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/facebook-knows-what-you-are-doing-even-if-the-app-is-not-installed-on-your-phone"},"modified":"2021-01-05T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:22:16","slug":"facebook-knows-what-you-are-doing-even-if-the-app-is-not-installed-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/facebook-knows-what-you-are-doing-even-if-the-app-is-not-installed-on-your-phone","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Knows What You Are Doing Even If The App Is Not Installed On Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-knows-what-you-are-doing-even-if-the-app-is-not-installed-on-your-phone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Third party data collection \u2014 whatever the motivation \u2014 has the potential to blur the lines between data privacy and complete identification.<\/p>\n<p>By Shireen Gupta<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, it was revealed that the Zoom iOS app was sending user data to Facebook unbeknownst to the user. The transaction conspired in a manner where Zoom had implemented the \u2018login from Facebook\u2019 button on its iOS app, subsequently involving the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK) in its iOS platform. The implementation of this feature allowed Facebook to access and extract users\u2019 data from Zoom\u2019s platform. Zoom apologised for this incident, claiming that it did not know of such implications while developing the app, further stating that it had rectified its mistake and fixed the app to remove the Facebook SDK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third party data collection \u2014 whatever the motivation \u2014 has the potential to blur the lines between data privacy and complete identification. By Shireen Gupta In March 2020, it was revealed that the Zoom iOS app was sending user data to Facebook unbeknownst to the user. The transaction conspired in a manner where Zoom had [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}