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Title: Facebook, Google Caught Deploying Invasive Apps; Apple Shuts Them Down
Post by: HCK on February 01, 2019, 04:05:12 pm
Facebook, Google Caught Deploying Invasive Apps; Apple Shuts Them Down

Facebook was found to have deployed apps to track user data and usage on iOS and Android, using a VPN app called "Facebook Research.” As TechCrunch reports, this app—which paid teenagers up to $20 a month to be surveilled—had root access to network traffic to be able to track all of the users' activity. The […]

Source: Facebook, Google Caught Deploying Invasive Apps; Apple Shuts Them Down (https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/facebook-google-caught-deploying-invasive-apps-apple-shuts-them-down/)