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‘Moves’ iPhone app changes privacy policy after being acquired by Facebook

07
May
2014

We have covered Moves a few times here on BGR. The sleek and smart iPhone app counts your steps each day using the iPhone 5s’s in-built M7 motion co-processor, and it collects and presents that data in a great-looking minimalistic interface. Not long ago, the company behind Moves was acquired by Facebook. On the plus side, Facebook instantly made the app free following the acquisition. But as many had feared, the company also changed the app’s privacy policy. As noted by The Wall Street Journal on Monday evening, Facebook has modified the privacy policy in Moves to allow for “broader sharing of user data, including with Facebook.” From WSJ: As recently as Friday, Moves’s privacy policy said the company did

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