Hi Pine, that question seems a bit off-topic here (for example
because, to my knowledge, there is actually no payment processing done
within the apps, contrary to what you are implying). How about asking
the Fundraising team?
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting report, thanks for sharing.
Just to very: mobile payment processing for WMF fundraising, both on mobile
web and on the mobile apps, is conducted entirely in-house with no third
party code or data sharing other than the bare minimum information provided
to financial institutions so that the funds can be transferred, right?
Pine
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Good for some general perspective on (lack of) user privacy in the app
industry:
http://techscience.org/a/2015103001/
"Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data
Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps"
summarized by Ars Technica here:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/user-data-plundering-by-android-and…
"Apps in both Google Play and the Apple App Store frequently send
users' highly personal information to third parties, often with little
or no notice, according to recently published research that studied
110 apps. ... 49 percent of Android apps sent users' names, 33 percent
transmitted users' current GPS coordinates, 25 percent sent addresses,
and 24 percent sent a phone's IMEI or other details. An app from
Drugs.com, meanwhile, sent the medical search terms "herpes" and
"interferon" to five domains, including
doubleclick.net,
googlesyndication.com,
intellitxt.com,
quantserve.com, and
scorecardresearch.com ..."
The Wikipedia apps were not among those tested - sadly, because it
might have been a nice opportunity to highlight the fact that we don't
share data with third parties at all. (In another context, we made
that point with this tweet:
https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/579220963755044864 )
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