Thursday, November 27, 2014

Twitter wants to spy on the other mobile apps you download - here's how to stop it

Twitter is to start monitoring the other apps that you download to your mobile phone and use that data to help sell advertising.

The company says it’s about making a "more personal Twitter experience for you" so that it can deliver "tailored content that you might be interested in".

Twitter will only collect the list of names of apps you install - your "app graph" data - rather than the content within those apps, but it’s still a little creepy .... http://www.mirror.co.uk