#candycrush — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116165955832004026

> Die US-Grenzschutzbehörde …hat systematisch #Standortdaten aus Alltags-Apps genutzt, die aus dem Real-Time-Bidding-System (#RTB) der Online-#Werbeindustrie stammen. Das belegt ein internes Dokument …, das die Investigativ-Plattform @404mediaco … veröffentlicht hat.

👉4.2.2026, @heiseonline dazu: https://www.heise.de/news/US-Grenzschutz-nutzte-Online-Werbedaten-zur-Handy-Ueberwachung-11199454.html

#Datenschutz #TeamDatenschutz #Privacy #CandyCrush #Tinder #Grindr #Tumblr #MyFitnessPal #DiDay #Webloc #LocationData

Über welche Apps der #Standort von #Smartphone-Usern ausspioniert wird
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000252373/candy-crush-tinder-und-co-ueber-welche-apps-der-standort-von-smartphone-usern-ausspioniert-wird

"Mehr als 10.000 einzelne #Apps konnten dabei bisher identifiziert werden. Darunter beliebte Spiele wie #CandyCrush oder #TempleRun, die Dating-Apps #Tinder und #Grindr, die Fitness-App #MyFitnessPal oder auch #Tumblr und #Flightradar24. Doch auch eine App zum Tracking des weiblichen Zyklus sowie eine muslimische Gebets-App befinden sich in dieser Riege gemeinsam mit vielen #VPN-Apps, die ironischerweise dazu gedacht sein sollten, die Privatsphäre der User zu schützen. Am meisten Daten finden sich in dem Datensatz allerdings von einer vielgenutzten #Wetter-App, die alleine in Googles Play Store mehr als 100 Millionen Downloads hat."

#Privatsphäre #Android #iOS #Standortdaten #Überwachung #databroker #Smartphones #Handy #leaks #GravyAnalytics

#CandyCrush, #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of #Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your #Location
A hack of location data company #GravyAnalytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/ #security #privacy #surveillance

@christopherkunz Well… Nope, unlikely. One is about Chrome extensions, the other about Android apps. Very different ecosystems.

I don’t have data on when the removals occurred exactly. Judging by chrome-stats data (not sure how reliable it is), most extensions seem to have been removed in the past few days.

#Alt4You: Screenshot of two posts. The top post is by WPalant: “There seems to be some major cleansing going on in Chrome Web Store. At least 7,500 extensions got removed over the course of the past month.” The bottom post is by PrivacyDigest: “#CandyCrush , #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal : See the Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to Spy on Your Location.” The second post links to a Wired story on the topic.

#CandyCrush , #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal : See the Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

A hack of location data company #GravyAnalytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
#privacy #geolocation #tracking #surveillance

https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

#CandyCrush , #Tinder , #MyFitnessPal : See Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to #Spy on Your Location

Some of the world’s most pop apps R likely being co-opted by rogue members of the #advertising industry to harvest sensitive loc data on massive scale, with data ending up with a loc data company whose subsidiary has previously sold global location data to US law enforcement
#privacy

https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/