Privacy (triple word score, 51)

• March 26, 2018
• By Paul Newton

Who wants a game of ‘Words with Friends’?

It’s an online version of Scrabble which you play against your Facebook friends.

Actually… before we start, let’s have a quick read of their Terms of Service to see what data they’re collecting about us…

• your first and last name
• your profile picture or its URL
• your Facebook ID number, which may be linked to publicly-available information like your name and profile photo
• the user ID number and other public data for your friends
• the login e-mail you provided to that third-party application when you registered with it
• your physical location and that of the devices you use to access our Services
• your gender
• your birthday and/or age range
• information about your activities on or through the connected third-party application
• other publicly-available information on the third-party application
• any other information that you or the provider of the third-party application share with Zynga IP addresses
• the type of computer or mobile device you are using
• your operating system version
• your mobile device’s identifiers, like your MAC Address, Identifier For Advertising (IDFA), and/or International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
• your browser types
• your browser language
• referring and exit pages, and URLs
• platform type
• the number of clicks on a page or feature
• domain names
• landing pages
• pages viewed and the order of those pages
• the amount of time spent on particular pages
• game state and the date and time of activity on our websites or games
• the name you have associated with your device
• your telephone number
• your country
• your specific geolocation
• your mobile contacts
• information about Zynga and other third-party apps you have on your device.

Hmmmm. Maybe it’s time to dust off the old Scrabble box!

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