{"id":6391,"date":"2016-11-30T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6391"},"modified":"2016-11-30T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:48:42","slug":"linked-small-number-of-swiftkey-users-discover-app-leaked-private-data-to-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/linked-small-number-of-swiftkey-users-discover-app-leaked-private-data-to-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Small Number of SwiftKey Users Discover App Leaked Private Data to Strangers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/07\/29\/swiftkey-leaked-private-data\/\">via MacRumors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A week after launching a new emoji-predicting keyboard, SwiftKey is now facing some pushback after a few users noticed that the main SwiftKey app was propagating suggestions related to the email accounts, phone numbers, and names of complete strangers (via The Telegraph). The Microsoft-owned app, available on iOS and Android, is widely known for its artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, which create custom word predictions based on what each user has previously typed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to 3rd-partify your iOS device by jailbreaking it, installing lots of applications that essentially duplicate Apple\u2019s core functionalities, you have to expect this will happen to you. Privacy is not an expectation when working with 3rd parties, especially ones that don\u2019t charge you anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via MacRumors: A week after launching a new emoji-predicting keyboard, SwiftKey is now facing some pushback after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-11-30T16:48:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"249dd4c3-dc96-45d1-92ef-08c80c5fb460","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-11-30T16:48:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AJJ3Uw9yWRdGS7wjIDF-0YA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1F5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5550,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/linked-google-is-teaming-up-with-phone-operators-to-elbow-its-way-back-into-messaging-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6391,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Google is teaming up with phone operators to elbow its way back into messaging&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Quartz: RCS lets users share photos and videos, see when others are typing, and set up group chats\u2013in other words, much of what the OTT apps already offer. 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Half of all U.S. smartphone users download zero apps per month, according to comScore\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5176,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/10\/29\/linked-facebook-ios-app-scrapes-your-clipboard\/","url_meta":{"origin":6391,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via un-excogitate: So what does this mean, and what can we do? Well, firstly, there isn't a permission to control access to the clipboard. The NSPasteboard Class is used to access the pasteboard server in AppKit used on OS X apps, while iOS uses the UIPasteboard Class. 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