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The Clark Howard Podcast

2.25.19 Apps giving your data to Facebook; VA problems persist; Skiplagging to score cheaper airfare

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Facebook has stepped in it again. Apps were giving Facebook loads of data about you including some really personal stuff; Incredibly sad and disturbing news - Vets are committing suicide in VA hospital parking decks as a protest to how poor the VA service has gotten; Lufthansa has sued a passenger for getting off the plane before finishing their reservation. Clark is in favor of using skiplagging services to save on your flights! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that wall

0:10.7

of yours.

0:11.7

I want you to learn ideas to me so you can keep more of what you make.

0:17.3

Coming up in just a few minutes, a new scandal enveloping the Veterans Administration.

0:24.6

Veterans that if so given up, you're not going to believe what's going on right now.

0:29.7

This is a scandal that must be addressed.

0:33.4

And coming up later, there's a way to save money on travel that the travel industry hates,

0:41.1

hates, hates.

0:42.1

I want to fill you in on how huge the savings can be and what you need to know to defeat

0:49.6

the airlines if their own nasty game.

0:54.0

I want to talk right now about a problem going on with your personal information.

1:01.2

In an investigation broken by the Wall Street Journal, Thursday night of last week, several

1:09.6

apps were taking extremely sensitive personal information of yours and immediately transmitting

1:18.6

it to Facebook.

1:21.3

So that it could then be used for targeted solicitations and ads.

1:27.0

Now the worst part of this is this was happening to people who aren't even on Facebook, but

1:34.8

Facebook, allegedly has deep profiles on us, even if we are not active participants or

1:43.7

participants at all on Facebook.

1:47.2

So how specific is the information that the Wall Street Journal discovered apps were

1:54.3

sharing with Facebook?

1:58.0

Well, how about they were sharing things like your current blood pressure?

2:03.9

If you're using any kind of health apps in the medical field, they were sharing when

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