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Re:Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions with... by notable_user on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:25PM (#19102402)
The real take away is that they’re sending all text typed in, including credit card and social security numbers, unencrypted to a third party.
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Re:Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions with... by rnotaro on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:21PM (#19102725)
Source? This would probably fail some compliances audit.

Most of these kind of tools (ie:HotJar) have a flag that will prevent theses data from being sent.

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Re:Many popular iPhone apps are recording user sessions with... by ryanwhitney on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @10:56PM (#19102874)
> In the case of Air Canada’s app, although the fields are masked, the masking didn’t always stick
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