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How mobile apps illegally share your personal data

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Forced Consent & Consent Bypass Today, noyb filed three complaints in France against Fnac (the largest electronics store in France), the real estate app SeLoger and the fitness app MyFitnessPal. The companies’ apps illegally access and share users’ personal data with third parties for sophisticated analytics as soon as the apps are opened. Users don’t even have the choice to consent to or prevent the sharing of their data. This approach is unlawful. Example complaint against Fnac (FR)English auto-translation of the example complaintMethodology and technical specifications for the network traffic capturing and analysisTransmission by default. The complainant installed the popular apps MyFitnessPal, Fnac and SeLoger on their Android smartphone. Once opened, the applications immediately began to collect and share personal data, including Google’s unique Advertising ID (AdID), the model and brand of their device and local IP address with third parties. Such extensive data collection allows

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