Hi Pine, that question seems a bit off-topic here (for example because, to my knowledge, there is actually no payment processing done within the apps, contrary to what you are implying). How about asking the Fundraising team?
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting report, thanks for sharing. > > Just to very: mobile payment processing for WMF fundraising, both on mobile > web and on the mobile apps, is conducted entirely in-house with no third > party code or data sharing other than the bare minimum information provided > to financial institutions so that the funds can be transferred, right? > > > Pine > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> Good for some general perspective on (lack of) user privacy in the app >> industry: >> >> http://techscience.org/a/2015103001/ >> "Who Knows What About Me? A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data >> Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps" >> >> summarized by Ars Technica here: >> >> http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/11/user-data-plundering-by-android-and-ios-apps-is-as-rampant-as-you-suspected/ >> >> "Apps in both Google Play and the Apple App Store frequently send >> users' highly personal information to third parties, often with little >> or no notice, according to recently published research that studied >> 110 apps. ... 49 percent of Android apps sent users' names, 33 percent >> transmitted users' current GPS coordinates, 25 percent sent addresses, >> and 24 percent sent a phone's IMEI or other details. An app from >> Drugs.com, meanwhile, sent the medical search terms "herpes" and >> "interferon" to five domains, including doubleclick.net, >> googlesyndication.com, intellitxt.com, quantserve.com, and >> scorecardresearch.com ..." >> >> The Wikipedia apps were not among those tested - sadly, because it >> might have been a nice opportunity to highlight the fact that we don't >> share data with third parties at all. (In another context, we made >> that point with this tweet: >> https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/579220963755044864 ) >> >> -- >> Tilman Bayer >> Senior Analyst >> Wikimedia Foundation >> IRC (Freenode): HaeB >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
