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« on: January 31, 2019, 04:05:18 pm »

Facebook paid teens to install banned app, spy on their data

After Apple banned Facebook's spying VPN, Facebook violated enterprise distribution policies by paying teens to sideload it.

Another week, another jaw-dropping, bomb-shell Facebook privacy violation.

Josh Constantine, writing for TechCrunch:


  Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook  has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user's phone and web activity, similar to Facebook's Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and rewards teenagers and adults to download the Research app and give it root access to network traffic in what may be a violation of Apple policy so the social network can decrypt and analyze their phone activity, a TechCrunch investigation confirms.


To put this in context, Facebook had the kids basically give them root access to their phones so Facebook could, in theory, spy on everything they did. It's beyond creepy. It's g...

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