In 2015, @businessinsider wrote: "[@UmooveMe technology] can be used for everything from diagnosing health problems by tracking eye movements to motion-control game controllers"http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/27-hottest-israel-startups-of-2015-2015-9/#umoove-eye-tracking-software-13 …
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@UmooveMe last tweet dated from the 29 Sept 2016, last Facebook post 29 May 2016, last news on their website 02 June 2016 and@Tuviae founded another company. So what happened to@UmooveMe
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I managed to find the Android library (the AAR file) developed by
@UmooveMe which seems to be still in development as an update from v2 to v2.12 had been made recently. However, their goal is totally different now...Show this thread -
As stated in the page I found "the face tracking feature was implemented to determine wether the user is watching the ad or not, and for how long (in ms)". 2 years later, the health and the game applications seems very far.
@UmooveMe is now used to track you!pic.twitter.com/ScfpZtWSb4
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@UmooveMe is asking 4 permissions among which the CAMERA permission. They use your front camera to track your eyes. Scary, no?pic.twitter.com/asMbtybKi7
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They also send your device information to their server: - deviceID - os - package_name - screen size - ...pic.twitter.com/tRXI6hIu7i
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The unused method getCurrentIP remains...Did they used to send the user IP to their server too
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Did I mention their is no way to opt out from this creepy tracking? So, if an app use this library, you have no way to avoid this tracking
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At the end, I'm not even angry
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1/ Hi, thanks for caring about Umoove and it's current activity! So Umoove is alive and kicking, not on social media but rather focused on the real world! We have multiple health projects such as Glacoma, Concussions as well as products in security, AR/VR and more..
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2/ We provide our tech to companies that build various products, yes in advertising as well, with full user consent. No images or user data are ever sent to our servers!! And yes like every single website and app online we use IP to track how often the tech is used and where.
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Hi, thank you for the answer. Are you aware that IP is consider as a personal data? What do mean by full user consent? Is there a warning? Do you provide a way for the user to optout from this tracking? Do you really think you are GDPR compliant?
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And come on, you can't said stuff like this "And yes like every single website and app online we use IP to track how often the tech is used and where." It just not true, app and site are not force to track their user...This is not normal for a company to retrieve the user IP.
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I am sure you know every website today has Google Analytics or a similar analytics system. They use your IP to know what country/area you are from. An IP is not user data when not tied to any user just to "how many users from a certain country used x"
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In European Union, IP are considered as a personal data, there is no discussion on this point https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-ip-addresses-are-personal-data-some-cases …
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Check the official GDPR site https://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faqs.html pic.twitter.com/aoA7nqiad6
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You need to be compliant before May 2018 otherwise you may face a penalty of "amount to a maximum of EUR 20 million, or, if this is a higher amount, 4% of the total worldwide annual turnover of an organisation" I'm just saying, you know...https://www.loyensloeff.com/en-us/news-events/news/gdpr-sanctions-for-non-compliance …
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