Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.
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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps
Google’s going to throw more bug bounty money at the problem of nasty apps in its Play Store, it announced on Thursday. In a post from the Android Security & Privacy team’s Adam Bacchus, Sebastian Porst, and Patrick Mutchler , the company said that it’s throwing the security net over not just its own apps, but […]
Facebook user data used as bargaining chip, according to leaked docs
Leaked internal docs used to claim “privacy was an afterthought” at Facebook
App developers are STILL allowed to read your Gmails
Google is still allowing third-party developers access to access its users’ Gmail data, it said in a letter to Senators last week.
Someone else is reading your Gmails
Remember when privacy advocates used to worry about Google scanning your email? Well now, they have another problem on their hands: real people reading them.
Snapchat issues first transparency report on law enforcement data requests
It’s a big step forward in transparency for Snapchat, which formerly described its service in a way that might lead users to think turning over their content to law enforcement would be impossible.
Snapchat to warn users about third-party apps, ask them to change their passwords
Instead of how it’s handled The Snappening mass image doxing aftermath so far – i.e., warning users that third-party apps are against its Terms of Use and trawling Google Play and the App Store to snuff them out – Snapchat will now sniff out Snapchatters using third-party apps, warn them that they’ve wandered into a scary app neighborhood, and ask them to change their passwords. 
Reminder: iCloud’s going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps
Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don’t support Apple’s new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You’ll need app-specific passwords to get at the cloud data. 