❗️How Facebook tracks you on Android even if you don’t have a Facebook account.

Shivashish Yadav
1 min readMar 22, 2020

They have captured and decrypted data in transit between our own devices and Facebook servers. It turns out that some apps routinely send Facebook information about your device and usage patterns — the second the app is opened. We’ll walk you through the technical part of our analysis and end with a call to action: We believe that both Facebook and developers can do more to avoid oversharing, profiling and damaging the privacy of their users.

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1️⃣ READ — How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook, even without an account on the latter.

2️⃣ Another research from Oxford university showing 43% free apps on Google Spy Store could share data with Facebook, making it the second most prevalent 3rd-party tracker after Google’s Alphabet.

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Shivashish Yadav
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Technical Writer, Software Engineer, Web Dev, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Expert