2.25.19 Apps giving your data to Facebook; VA problems persist; Skiplagging to score cheaper airfare
The Clark Howard Podcast
Clark Howard
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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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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