Meta Pixel halts Android localhost tracking after disclosure
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: Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins

Security researchers say Meta and Yandex used native Android apps to listen on localhost ports, allowing them to link web browsing data to user identities and bypass typical privacy protections.

  • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialEnglish
    19·
    6 days ago

    Beyond the fees, the senior executives should be required to do 24 months live-in community service (e.g. free phone repair for senior citizens) while being frozen out of their current assets/money. During this period they would only have access to minimum wage for their community service work.

    I can guarantee you this will lead to a change in behaviour.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
      15·
      6 days ago

      This.

      If corporations are people, the C-suite needs to serve jail time.

      And don’t scapegoat some director or department head - go straight for the C’s, it’s what they get the big bucks for right?

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
    12·
    6 days ago

    This sort of shit is why i dont allow most apps on my device.

    Unless it’s doing something that requires hardware level access there is NO REASON for them to need an app rather than a functional website.