<Thread> @UmooveMe is an Israeli company founded in 2010 by @YitzKemp and @tuviae. His face and eye-tracking technology made the news few years ago. They raised 3.4M$ in 4 rounds. Classified as 1 of the 27 hottest startup by @businessinsider in 2015.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vhuhOPCu60 …
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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
@UmooveMe. I'm just sad to see how you change a pretty cool idea to a scary way to track people.Show this thread - End of conversation
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