<story><title>Cow Game Extracted Facebook Data</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway84742</author><text>Google must be sweating bullets right now. Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing, and there are hundreds of thousands of them with a significant user base. Some do most certainly misuse the data they collect. Maybe a small percentage, but a small percentage of 100k is still a large number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leggomylibro</author><text>Google is in a bit of a different position. The most information that a malicious app on my friend&amp;#x27;s phone can access about me is what my friend has stored on their phone about me.&lt;p&gt;Personal things like messaging history and contact information are certainly enough to build a &amp;#x27;social graph&amp;#x27;, but what Google does not let apps do is access the information &lt;i&gt;that Google stores about me on their servers&lt;/i&gt; just because my friend has both my number and a greedy app on their phone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cow Game Extracted Facebook Data</title><url>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/?single_page=true</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway84742</author><text>Google must be sweating bullets right now. Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing, and there are hundreds of thousands of them with a significant user base. Some do most certainly misuse the data they collect. Maybe a small percentage, but a small percentage of 100k is still a large number.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>guelo</author><text>Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps. Facebook&amp;#x27;s data is much more personal. With a user&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Like&amp;quot; stream it&amp;#x27;s possible to build a surprisingly accurate personality profile.&lt;p&gt;The worst Android offenders, as always, are the big ad libraries that are installed across a lot of apps. They&amp;#x27;re able to build a rough personality profile based on the types of apps someone has installed. So they can generally say if a user is into categories like music or politics or comedy. But that problem exists on iOS and the web.&lt;p&gt;Android has also tightened up its permission model considerably over the last several years.</text></comment>