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The Telegraph is reporting on a Twitter blog post announcing that the Twitter app for Android and iOS is going to keep track of the list of applications you have installed on your phone or tablet. While the Telegraph is claiming "Twitter to snoop on every app on your phone", Twitter says "We are not collecting any data within the applications."
"Twitter is using your app graph to help build a more tailored experience for you on Twitter." "To help build a more personal Twitter experience for you, we are collecting and occasionally updating the list of apps installed on your mobile device so we can deliver tailored content that you might be interested in."
This seems like the next step in companies prying their way into every personal detail of someone's life. Yes there's an 'opt-out', but shouldn't it really be an 'opt-in'? And would you really trust an app that wants to track this information to honor the 'opt-out'? IMHO the best way to ensure Twitter doesn't track your apps (or more) is to not have the app installed.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Wrong Turn Ahead on Thursday November 27 2014, @05:23AM
I really hope this encourages Google to just jail every app, or at least provide more granular controls to curb this kind of behavior.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @05:41AM
More reason for full virtualization of android "in the cloud" - run a separate VM for each app and then route the display to your phone with something along the lines of RDP/VNC. Let the "cloud" be on your home PC or an official cloud provider, you could even run VM's scattered around the net on multiple systems so that you've got tons of horsepower and multiple independent IP addresses. It would also mean the phone could be cheaper, don't need all that much horsepower on the phone just enough to be really fast at displaying RDP/VNC type bitmaps - maybe low-latency h265 decode in hardware for videos and any apps with lots of screen action.
(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Thursday November 27 2014, @02:25PM
Yeah, that will work so well with 200 MB data caps!
Honestly, mobile data should be capless, but the sad reality is that we pay more for less on mobile than we ever did on dialup or slow DSL back in the 90s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @06:03AM
Why would it encourage them to do that? Android exists as an advertising platform.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Thursday November 27 2014, @01:09PM
Or you could use Firefox OS (when a decent device comes out)
In capitalist America, ads view YOU!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @04:57PM
Rather jail the Twitter execs who are violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.