Arstechnica: Mere days after the fitness-tracking app Moves assured users about their privacy after its acquisition by Facebook, the company has changed its privacy policy to allow itself to share data with third parties. The Wall Street Journal reported the changes late Monday, which were pushed as an app update to Moves users.
Moves uses a smartphone’s accelerometer (or the M7 processor in the case of the iPhone 5S) to passively track a user’s walking, cycling, running, or driving activity. Users can log other information like calorie counts or activities manually, and Moves integrates with a handful of other life-logging apps like Momento or OptimizeMe to create detailed timelines of where a person goes and how they get there—for instance, their trips to a local coffee shop.
