It’s quite possible that every single app you use on any particular day is running code from Facebook, Google and other data-gathering and data-mining companies. Because of the way this code is integrated — by linking to a dynamic library at build time — it means these companies can effectively control those apps, or worse,weiterlesen

“Earlier today, a new release of Facebook included a change that triggered crashes for some users in some apps using the Facebook iOS SDK,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge. “We identified the issue quickly and resolved it. We apologize for any inconvenience.” A source with knowledge of the situation toldweiterlesen

Absichtserklärungen für „mehr Privatsphäre” haben wir in den vergangenen Wochen sowohl von Facebook als auch Google gehört. Aber erst die tatsächliche Umsetzung wird zeigen, wie ernst es die Firmen damit meinen. Für Facebook habe ich diesbezüglich jegliche Hoffnung aufgegeben; bei Google lohnt es sich jedoch weiter den Finger in die Wunde zu legen – so wieweiterlesen

Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps, from early releases of the Facebook app to basic tools like a lunch menu. A person familiar with the situation tells The Verge that early versions of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and other pre-release “dogfood” (beta) apps have stopped working, as have other employee apps,weiterlesen

Apple has recruited Mr Parakilas to work in its privacy team as a product manager, according to people familiar with the hire. His internal-facing role within Apple’s product marketing organisation will involve working with teams all over the iPhone maker, to ensure that new products in development protect users’ privacy and minimise data collection. Financialweiterlesen

In February 2014, Facebook purchased the messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. The acquisition price was staggering for an app that made little money and was largely popular outside the United States. Now, newly published confidential Facebook emails and charts show exactly why CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a small fortune for the messaging app. Forweiterlesen

Earlier this month, Apple officials informed Facebook that the app violated new rules outlined in June designed to limit data collection by app developers, the person familiar with the situation said. Apple informed Facebook that Onavo also violated a part of its developer agreement that prevents apps from using data in ways that go beyondweiterlesen

Drei Monate nachdem sich Facebook im Jahr 2014 WhatsApp einverleibte, übernahm das Zuckerberg-Netzwerk auch das finnische Start-up Moves von Sampo Karjalainen. In der letzten Woche wurde das Ende des Dienstes „zur automatischen und kontinuierlichen Erfassung der eigenen Laufwege und Aufenthaltsorte” verkündet. Drei Alternativen kann ich zur dauerhaften Aufzeichnung der persönlichen Aktivitäten mit Standort-Verknüpfung empfehlen. Arcweiterlesen