Bangalore-based women's period and pregnancy app Maya shared your sensitive medical and sexual information with Facebook, and with another third-party, shows research by UK-based group Privacy International. Maya essentially shared every single interaction between you and the app, starting from when you open it, to whether you have protected or unprotected sex, your period cycles, contraceptive pill use, how you're feeling, and whether you have acne or breast tenderness — with Facebook, according to the research. Developed by Plackal Tech which is now owned by Sheroes, Maya can be used to track pregnancy, to have or avoid having a baby, and to track health and period cycles. It told Facebook when you open its app; Facebook can easily assume from that simple notification that you're probably a woman, probably menstruating, possibly trying to have or avoid having a baby. Even though you are asked to agree to their privacy policy, Maya started sharing your data with Facebook before you got to agree to anything. Maya was launched in 2014, and was acquired by Delhi-based women's social network Sheroes in January 2019. It has seen 7 million downloads, has 1.2 million active users, is available in 14 languages, in 192 countries. "Facebook's SDK for Android allows app developers to integrate their apps with Facebook’s platform and contains a number of core components: Analytics, Ads, Login, Account Kit, Share, Graph API, App Events and App Links," said the research. Maya also shared contraceptive pill usage data with Facebook. It also gathers intimate details…
