Two third-party SDKs allowed secret harvesting of Twitter and Facebook user data

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OneAudience and MobiBurn discontinue their respective SDKs after another data collection scandal breaks out on Monday.

Facebook and Twitter are investigating a report from security researchers about two third-party software development kits (SDKs) that allowed app makers to access and collect user data without authorization.
An SDK is a software library that app developers embed in their code to automate certain operations, and spare themselves from writing that specific code by hand and losing precious time.
SDKs are very popular in the modern app development ecosystem, but using an SDK also implies surrendering some of your app's control to a third-party entity.