This is 100% why I don’t have any 3rd party SDKs in PCalc. Apple needs to crack down on these analytics tools which are effectively spyware at this point.https://t.co/QyIfQs3bnU

— James Thomson (@jamesthomson) May 28, 2019

Apps Are Using Background App Refresh to Send Data to Tracking Companies https://t.co/VhsPoy9vi2 pic.twitter.com/NhTNqpfcTx

— Apple Streem (@applestreem) May 28, 2019

"...very few apps I found using third-party trackers disclosed the names of those companies or how they protect my data. And what good is burying this information in privacy policies, anyway? What we need is accountability."

Couldn't agree more. Good read: https://t.co/GGG9XvpJPW

— Ry Crist (@rycrist) May 28, 2019

The mobile SDK ecosystem is a huge mess and the course-grained mobile permission system is not up to the task.

Google or Apple could really lead here with a mechanism for user notification and consent that is tied to static/dynamic analysis. An upside of the app store oligopoly. https://t.co/VCh9850VQr

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 28, 2019

Apple promises privacy, but iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms - The Washington Post https://t.co/5mHUWWv9BO

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 28, 2019

In which we learn the extent to which our phones share our data. https://t.co/N89aX5FOIe

— mark seibel (@markseibel) May 28, 2019

Somehow very fitting that a fear-based social network like Citizen is secretly giving away your personal information in violation of its own privacy policy https://t.co/UMDarmKiPv

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) May 28, 2019

this is why I turn off background app refresh, but it's still bad: https://t.co/tUEFP7X4R5

— Rebecca Slivka (@slugbiker) May 28, 2019

"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." https://t.co/7ozGw9oz75 via @geoffreyfowler

— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) May 28, 2019

Come on @Apple , up your game! still better than Android by far, but..
"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." https://t.co/gPZc5Fi0Gz

— Hamed Haddadi (@realhamed) May 28, 2019

Hey Apple, how's that privacy-first thing working out?https://t.co/ub3NNPj9Iy pic.twitter.com/hf2h5vDwLT

— Jeff Roberts (@jeffjohnroberts) May 28, 2019

Stunning article that reveals the deep activity happening on our phones. Everyone should read this! “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?” https://t.co/zplhXmlx2i

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) May 28, 2019

BUT on the web you can see and/or block them entirely. you literally can't do either of those in native apps. https://t.co/ZnFkSqIvb4

— Owen Williams ⚡ (@ow) May 28, 2019

"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?” 
https://t.co/6wm5tWOGHL

— Susan Kelleher (@SusanKelleher) May 28, 2019

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. https://t.co/U5XqtsexMx

— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) May 28, 2019

It'll be very interesting to see what happens when the mass market smartphone audience realizes most of the apps they use every day are worse than the worst Windows XP-era spyware when it comes to how much data they are constantly collecting and reporting. https://t.co/41Zh7qNCiD

— Eli Hodapp ? @ Digital Dragons ? (@hodapp) May 28, 2019

According to a recent Apple ad, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” My investigation suggests otherwise, writes @geoffreyfowler of The @WashingtonPost. https://t.co/7rZlqkINep

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) May 28, 2019

Another example of first-party tracking from my privacy experiment:

Yelp was receiving a message from my iPhone *once every five minutes* that included my IP address.

It says I found a “bug.” But now it has months of granular data about me. https://t.co/OkRhR6lP53

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) May 28, 2019

« A more typical example is DoorDash, the food-delivery service. Launch that app, and you’re sending data to nine third-party trackers — though you’d have no way to know it. » https://t.co/X0r5wzug2M

— Jean-Sébastien Zanchi (@jszanchi) May 28, 2019

Apple says "What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone."

My @washingtonpost privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden trackers guzzled my data — in a single week.https://t.co/OkRhR6DpWB pic.twitter.com/d7tsKfYW3Q

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) May 28, 2019

Apple says “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our tech columnist's data — in a single week. https://t.co/3JJTeGqV8Q

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 28, 2019

From my iPhone privacy test:

Just while I slept at night, iPhone apps that sent my data to third-party tracker companies include Microsoft OneDrive, Mint, Nike, Spotify, The Washington Post and The Weather Channel.https://t.co/OkRhR6lP53

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) May 28, 2019

An important, highly readable piece from Geoff that shows the utter illusion of transparency in what happens to our digital information. https://t.co/gWCm0nfTIv

— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) May 28, 2019

"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." https://t.co/B9Dl9azGxo

— Taylor Soper (@Taylor_Soper) May 28, 2019

Imagine if each SDK that communicates home had to register with the platform providers, and if users could opt-in/out across the entire phone.

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 28, 2019

New by me @washingtonpost:

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

I ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden personal-data trackers are running from the apps on my iPhone.

The tally is astounding: https://t.co/RC1NRtmsWo pic.twitter.com/EDO6JQjQah

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) May 28, 2019

That’s fair criticism. It’d be nice to see Apple crack down on trackers used by the apps themselves next. https://t.co/LjS5zr7WYq

— Guillaume Ceccarelli (@GCsVentures) May 28, 2019

Love when apps keep me safe! https://t.co/4q2mTsS2Id pic.twitter.com/UBz7PPyVis

— Joshua Topolsky (@joshuatopolsky) May 28, 2019

One example from my @washingtonpost privacy experiment:

The police-reporting app Citizen was sharing with third parties my phone number, email and exact location with this parties — even though its privacy policy said it would not.https://t.co/OkRhR6DpWB

— Geoffrey A. Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) May 28, 2019

In the span of one week, ⁦@geoffreyfowler⁩’s iPhone encountered over 5,400 trackers, mostly in apps. Data taken included his location and his phone’s fingerprint. https://t.co/JmHOI08XVM

— Post Technology (@PostTech) May 28, 2019

This is a fair observation, and also a call for Apple to screen apps in its App Store more carefully and be more restrictive with what they can do https://t.co/udKdl4FCah

— John Bergmayer (@bergmayer) May 28, 2019

Hundreds of trackers can quietly run in the background on your iPhone via the most popular apps.

Turning off location services & background refresh will stop them — except when one of those apps is in use. They can be blocked totally with a VPN but that requires a 3rd party app: https://t.co/bw3lYLvO0F

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) May 28, 2019

“There are still so many questions, and the @FCC has failed to be transparent about the communications crisis in Puerto Rico and what carriers did or didn’t do to help."

-- @CarmenScurato#justice4PRhttps://t.co/1SRW9MHpZK

— Free Press (@freepress) May 28, 2019

Oh, it's worse. He authored Ohio's abortion law taking away right and barring insurance coverage for women, he isn't medically trained and he lies about ectopic pregnancies. And now he's joking about murder. He's got it all.https://t.co/jaeDpTLPUl

— imleftcoast #Redacted ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ (@imleftcoast) May 26, 2019

Traveling somewhere this weekend?
Take us with you! Download the latest “Cape Up” episodes from here: https://t.co/h6lBwTJDby

Past guests include @donnabrazile, @PeteButtigieg, @HamillHimself, @AprilDRyan and more! pic.twitter.com/VDEvdSLbTW

— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) May 25, 2019

Every human being in our country is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When we strip away rights of people, we are not, as a society, living up to what the founders intended. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #ProtectTransHealthhttps://t.co/pHx0dIIKpj

— Rep Brianna Titone - COHD27 (@BriannaForHD27) May 24, 2019

Pretty rich coming from a publication known for leaking classified information.?

I hear the secrets that you keep when your talking in your sleep ?

https://t.co/sCNm4s1irQ

— Labyrinth (@Labyrinth_free) May 25, 2019

Monitoring software used by The Washington Post on an ordinary iPhone found that no fewer than 5,400 app trackers were sending data from the phone – in some cases including sensitive data like location and phone number. https://t.co/nK23CeK74u

— Geeknik (•̪̀●́) Labs (@geeknik) May 28, 2019

Washington Post finds 5,400 app trackers on an ordinary iPhone - 9to5Mac
this is worth a read, not just clickbait.... https://t.co/XfljvFKY6S

— Steve Dotto (@dottotech) May 29, 2019

Wearables | Washington Post finds 5,400 app trackers sending data from an iPhone https://t.co/ZhnoaeD7bJ | @9to5mac pic.twitter.com/pHGVMuBzZG

— AppleWatchGuru (@AppleWatchGuru) May 28, 2019

“In a single week, I encountered over 5,400 trackers, mostly in apps, not including the incessant Yelp traffic...those unwanted trackers would have spewed out 1.5 gigabytes of data over a month. That’s half of an entire basic wireless service plan.” ? https://t.co/18gdIB0lJe

— Aaron Miri (@AaronMiri) May 28, 2019

We need to universally STOP this soft identity (theft) extract & trade based profiteering legally & technologically: Washington Post finds 5,400 app trackers sending data from an iPhone https://t.co/qsyI7Ox52T via @benlovejoy

— Jim Samuel, PhD (@jimsamuel) May 28, 2019

While you're sleeping, your iPhone stays busy — snooping on youhttps://t.co/CB1hXLlNLF

— nzherald (@nzherald) May 28, 2019

Whatever damage your software may cause, just call it a bug and you're free to go. That's the industry standard since forever.

"Yelp was sending data every five minutes, something the company later said was a bug"https://t.co/kNPLDPG6II

— Marcin Krzyzanowski (@krzyzanowskim) May 29, 2019

“Apps passing data along included Microsoft OneDrive, Mint, Nike, Spotify, The Weather Channel, DoorDash, Yelp, Citizen, and even The Washington Post's own iOS app. Yelp was sending data every five minutes, something the company later said was a bug.” https://t.co/X20lmawehA

— Peter Steinberger (@steipete) May 29, 2019

Once again we discover that we are being tracked and recorded far more than we imagine. https://t.co/2jliNi6sRo

— Jonathan Briggs (@jonathanbriggs) May 28, 2019

She has said her Secretary of Education will have to be a former public school teacher @FMSupreme https://t.co/1FVT1mumcT

— TARICA JUNE ✨ Independent Artist (@TaricaJune) May 29, 2019

James Comey: No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that.https://t.co/ggR8Yo5Mjk

— ?ʙᴏᴏᴛ•ꜱᴛᴀᴛᴇ•ʙʀɪᴇ? (@BlueBeeInDaBoot) May 28, 2019