Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by _-___________-_ on Saturday March 28, 2020 @11:01AM (#22711519)

> declare what domains they'll access and otherwise get no other network access

So Facebook will just provide an SDK for app developers to integrate server-side that lets their app send the data to their own domain, and the server passes it on to FB. Developers will install it, because they want the analytics and ad conversion tracking. There probably isn't a great technical solution to this problem.

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Re:Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client by judge2020 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:57PM (#22713435)

This would be leagues better than what we have now since we know that (at least a handful of) companies don't know or actively audit what their SDKs are doing - the Zoom situation here has plausible deniability. If they requires some server-site SDK to do this, some/many would do it, but that increases the cost of running the SDK and there wouldn't be any way to say "we didn't know FB used us as a privacy trojan".

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