Privacy International | Investigating Apps interactions with Facebook on Android

Privacy International has been investigating the proliferation of data tracking, brokerage and exchange between many tech companies, both as their primary business as well as value added services. 

Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools. App developers share data with Facebook through the Facebook Software Development Kit (SDK), a set of software development tools that help developers build apps for a specific operating system. Using the free and open source software tool called "mitmproxy", an interactive HTTPS proxy, Privacy International has analyzed the data that a number of Android apps transmit to Facebook through the Facebook SDK.

Key findings

Report:

The full report, including our legal analysis, our full methodology and company responses can be found here


Documentation:

Below is the accompanying documentation for the report, including the analysis of each app and the data transmitted to and from Facebook

https://privacyinternational.org/appdata