Fordham Law School FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History Faculty Scholarship 2019 APIs and Your Privacy N. Cameron Russell Fordham University,
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[email protected]. JANUARY 2019 APIs and Your Privacy N. Cameron Russell Executive Director Fordham CLIP Fordham Law School Florian Schaub Assistant Professor School of Information University of Michigan Allison McDonald PhD candidate Computer Science College of Engineering University of Michigan William Sierra-Rocafort Project Fellow Fordham CLIP Fordham Law School Executive Summary Application programming interfaces, or APIs, have been the topic of much recent discussion. Newsworthy events, including those involving Facebook’s API and Cambridge Analytica obtaining information about millions of Facebook users, have highlighted the technical capabilities of APIs for prominent websites and mobile applications. At the same time, media coverage of ways that APIs have been misused has sparked concern for potential privacy invasions and other issues of public policy. This paper seeks to educate consumers on how APIs work and how they are used within popular websites and mobile apps to gather, share, and utilize data.