Moves Abandons Promise Not to 'Commingle Data With Facebook'

Companies acquired by Facebook like to promise to keep data separate. But what does Facebook buy them for, if not the data?

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Moves is a fitness app designed to create a visual timeline of your fitness habits, with the goal of of helping you track workout changes and progress. The problem is the Moves team promised that their acquisition by Facebook wouldn’t result in any changes. But recent changes to the app might be an indication of just how far Facebook’s influence reaches.

Following the acquisition, Moves released a statement that it was “joining Facebook’s talented team to work on building and improving their products and services with a shared mission of supporting simple, efficient tools for more than a billion people.”

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