Alert: Even social media provides us with all the necessary help, and although it put our privacy at risk.
And you're wondering till what extent Facebook can know your secrets, so turn on to know the extent of knowledge. So it can detect when was the last time women or men has sex or what contraceptive she used.
As per a report by BuzzFeed News, UK-based advocacy group Privacy International exposed the 'dubious practices' of apps, which are quite helpful to women in tracking their cycle and helping users know their right times to conceive. This process also includes knowing a user's personal information.
Which may concerns to their menstruation cycle, in order to have the right prediction of it and to calculate the ovulation period.
The study, 'No Body's Business But Mine: How Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Your Data' reveals that out of the few studied-apps with a wide user-reach, two of them, Maya by Plackal Tech and MIA by Mobapp Development have appeared to extensively share highly personal data with Facebook to the target audience for advertisers.
Facebook's Software Development Kit (SDK), which is an application developer and helps these apps in collecting data to target advertisements. With this process, these apps end up in sharing all the sensitive data with Facebook. Any user of this app doesn't even necessary to have on Facebook.
A data of personal medical is among a range of sensitive data and this confidentiality is a part of medical ethics. The reports note that these apps didn't follow the guidelines. They were, still, sharing with the giant social media platform. These data help the apps to "comply" the advertisements with the mood of its user's sensitive data to show the relevant ads too.
The report noted that both the applications start sharing the information before one even agrees to their privacy policies.
Dear viewers, we would also like to inform that today you do not have any idea of using the social media app. All are busy enjoying their day-to-day life with a chill, post comments, and likes. If you do not take care of your privacy seriously, that gonna be used by any third party users. Because these days app can also detect sensitive data, such as have s*x with a partner, using any contraceptive, detect you periods especially for women's. So women's must be careful about it all.
Thanks for reading this article, if you love this post write below in a comment and also share with your friends to take care of personal privacy. This report was discovered by BuzzFeed News.
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