In recent years, we have seen how many apps and services allow us Use our Facebook or Google account because come in in applications / games and thus avoiding email subscriptions, a process that most people like to avoid.
Or in many cases, we are notified of the details on which the app will be available, as well there is nothing we can do but believe and trust it if we want to use our Facebook or Google account instead of using a specific email account in these cases.
But the problem arises not only in the desire to collect data from Facebook and Google, but also discomfort from other developers, engineers who, in order to earn more money, manage to sell our data to both companies, even if we don't use our accounts on social networks.
The last example is found in the Zoom video call application, a request that, due to the current detained situation, has become one of the most famous Both for business and for private companies. Last Thursday, the boys from Motherboard published an article in which they claimed that the iOS system shared user data without informing users of its privacy policy.
According to this medium, Zoom used the Facebook SDK to integrate "Sign in with Facebook", the function, as I mentioned above, provides that you can sign in quickly and easily. However, by installing this SDK, Zoom is automatically linked and shared with the Google Graph API, or the user does not have a Facebook account.
A few hours after we published an article on Motherboard media, the Zoom boys said that he would withdraw the SDK on Facebook "collecting data from devices that are not needed for your app's performance" says:
The information collected by the Facebook SDK does not include any personal data, but it does include data on user devices such as the type and type of mobile application, device timezone, device operating system, device and network model, screen size, processor cores, and disk space
I doubt very much, not to mention too much, that Zoom app developers didn't always know what the Facebook Graph SDK was doing when they used it to log into their phone calls. Everyone is very aware that their data is their own and cannot be sold with them without the consent of the user.
Zoom claims that this API did not collect a username, the hardest thing to believe When both Facebook and Google, the first thing they want to know about your name is the ability to aggregate all the data they collect using the app or game we use with our account.
What? Sign in with Apple the solution?
We're at a point where it seems that we never know what's going on in our data. In the case of Zoom, our data was collected even though we did not use our Facebook account. This makes us wonder if our privacy is really protected when we use our Apple account to sign in to apps or games by signing in with Apple.
Apple signing in allows us to use our Apple ID to start using a game or app instead of our social networking account or sign up with a form and associate details by email. According to Apple, Signing in with Apple is designed from the ground up to respect our privacy and gives us full control over our information.
It's time to start signing in with Apple, both apps and games and websites that can ask us for both an address and an email address configure our account
By using Apple sign-in, we can use Hide My Email, Apple's private email delivery service create and share a random email address and redirected to our email account associated with Apple ID.
This functionality allows us receive developer messages without sharing our email address, the email address that only the builder can set up is to contact us. This Apple application does not create a profile, we can create a separate profile for each application when you sign up.
From the idea of practice
Apple's vision is excellent, but who makes sure that apps that use Log in and Apple don't collect our third-party data like Zoom? At Apple's thought you have a series of guidelines all developers must follow to be able to contribute their apps to the App.
Are apps using the Apple feature sign-in more secure? Does Apple personally consider how usage and device data can be shared with third parties? It must be like this. Time will tell when this new feature, which is not yet available in most apps and games available in the App app is it really safe or is it the same.
