# You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. - WSJ

<https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-personal-information-then-they-tell-facebook-11550851636>

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## What Jamie wrote

These are profound violations of trust and privacy.

> In the Journal’s testing, Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor, the most popular heart-rate app on Apple’s iOS, made by California-based Azumio Inc., sent a user’s heart rate to Facebook immediately after it was recorded.
> 
> Flo Health Inc.’s Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker, which claims 25 million active users, told Facebook when a user was having her period or informed the app of an intention to get pregnant, the tests showed.
> 
> Real-estate app Realtor.com, owned by Move Inc., a subsidiary of Wall Street Journal parent News Corp , sent the social network the location and price of listings that a user viewed, noting which ones were marked as favorites, the tests showed.
> 
> None of those apps provided users any apparent way to stop that information from being sent to Facebook.

Via [Daring Fireball](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/02/22/facebook-apps-data).

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