This week’s answer to the question “Is nothing sacred?”
Buzzfeed News has put together an interesting report on the explosion of prayer apps like Pray.com, Glorify and Hallow. On the surface, thes
Almost every app collects personal data from users to sell to advertisers but in the case of prayer apps, that data can be extremely intimate. Are you asking for prayer for a struggle with addiction? A failing marriage? Self-harm? A miscarriage? The legal jargon you agreed to on these apps gives them the right to sell that information to third parties. “The Pray privacy policy, combined with the aggressive attribution vendors they partner with, creates a perfect storm to build deeply invasive profiles of religious voters,” said privacy researcher Zach Edwards.
