iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms

It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?

Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.

It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing?

Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of. Your iPhone probably is doing the same — and Apple could be doing more to stop it.

On a recent Monday night, a dozen marketing companies, research firms and other personal data guzzlers got reports from my iPhone. At 11:43 p.m., a company called Amplitude learned my phone number, email and exact location. At 3:58 a.m., another called Appboy got a digital fingerprint of my phone. At 6:25 a.m., a tracker called Demdex received a way to identify my phone and sent back a list of other trackers to pair up with.

And all night long, there was some startling behavior by a household name: Yelp. It was receiving a message that included my IP address -— once every five minutes.

Our data has a secret life in many of the devices we use every day, from talking Alexa speakers to smart TVs. But we’ve got a giant blind spot when it comes to the data companies probing our phones.

You might assume you can count on Apple to sweat all the privacy details. After all, it touted in a recent ad, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” My investigation suggests otherwise.

IPhone apps I discovered tracking me by passing information to third parties — just while I was asleep — include Microsoft OneDrive, Intuit’s Mint, Nike, Spotify, The Washington Post and IBM’s the Weather Channel. One app, the crime-alert service Citizen, shared personally identifiable information in violation of its published privacy policy.

And your iPhone doesn’t only feed data trackers while you sleep. In a single week, I encountered over 5,400 trackers, mostly in apps, not including the incessant Yelp traffic. According to privacy firm Disconnect, which helped test my iPhone, those unwanted trackers would have spewed out 1.5 gigabytes of data over the span of a month. That’s half of an entire basic wireless service plan from AT&T.

“This is your data. Why should it even leave your phone? Why should it be collected by someone when you don’t know what they’re going to do with it?” says Patrick Jackson, a former National Security Agency researcher who is chief technology officer for Disconnect. He hooked my iPhone into special software so we could examine the traffic. “I know the value of data, and I don’t want mine in any hands where it doesn’t need to be,” he told me.

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Google and Facebook Are Quietly Tracking You on Sex Websites

A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites and found them riddled with trackers from major technology companies


The study found that Google (or one of its subsidiary companies like the advertising platform DoubleClick) had trackers on 74 percent of the pornography sites. Trackers from the software company Oracle showed up on 24 percent of sites, and Facebook, which does not permit pornographic content or nudity on any of its platforms, had trackers on 10 percent of the sex websites scanned by the study

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Disable Fuck Services script 1.2

The goal of this program is to disable many trackers by Google, Facebook and others from the installed apps (and from Google Services if you have them). It will do a search and disable many of the analytics, ads, and firebase services for all user apps

1. Download the DisableFuckServices12.sh file
2. Copy it to /data/local/tmp with some root explorer (I used Mixplorer)
3. Give it 755 permission (also used Mixplorer for this, right after pasting)
4. Open a terminal (like Termux or Terminal Emulator)
5. Do the following 2 commands:
su
cd /data/local/tmp
sh DisableFuckServices12.sh
6. Wait (maybe a couple minutes depending on the number of apps installed)
7. Done

Warning: there is a small chance some apps will force close after this.
If so you can just reinstall them

https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/script-disable-fk-services-trackers-apps-t4074427

Changelog : 
- 1.0 : Original version from MOVZX
- 1.1 : add Facebook trackers
- 1.2 : add IAMs trackers read Ars technica article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/4000-android-apps-silently-access-your-installed-software

Credits:
by MOVZX
Updated by rayman95
DanGoodin from Ars Technica
Tutorial by saitama


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Advertising profiles in your browser: Eyeo launches "Crumbs".

More and more companies are trying to position themselves for the post-cookie age, including adblocker manufacturer Eyeo.

With a new plugin, Eyeo, known for its AdBlock Plus browser plugin, is trying to launch a new advertising market. "Crumbs" blocks conventional advertising trackers and instead creates a user profile in the browser to play out privacy-preserving yet personalized advertising.

The browser plugin, which is currently available for Chrome and Firefox, is supposed to filter out the currently omnipresent cookie popups as well as the actual tracking techniques, such as third-party cookies or certain scripts. In addition, Crumbs sends the signal of the Global Privacy Control group to prohibit the sharing of profile information.

In addition to a complete blocking of advertising cookies, Crumbs also offers a sandbox mode, in which cookies are only accepted for appearances, but then deleted again. In addition, advertising requests are to be routed through a proxy so that advertisers cannot draw any direct conclusions about the IP address.

https://crumbs.org/

https://www.heise.de/news/Werbeprofile-im-Browser-Eyeo-startet-Crumbs-5036636.html

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