Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps

ronjor · Feb 8, 2019

Issie Lapowsky 02.07.19

Three of the Senate’s biggest privacy advocates are sending letters to Facebook, Google, and Apple executives Thursday, following a recent TechCrunch report that Facebook used an iOS and Android app to monitor the phones of users as young as 13 years old. The app, called Research and sometimes referred to as Project Atlas, gave Facebook complete visibility into users' app activity, web searches, encrypted data, and even private messages.
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guest · Feb 8, 2019

yeah sure...now bashing tech giants look goods towards the electors...where were they 10 years ago?

ronjor · Feb 8, 2019

guest said: ↑

where were they 10 years ago?
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Good question.

ronjor · Jun 12, 2019

Facebook collected device data on 187,000 users using banned snooping app

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker 12 June 2019
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct Research app, which Apple banned earlier this year after the app violated its rules.
The social media giant said in a letter to Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office — which TechCrunch obtained — that it collected data on 31,000 users in the U.S., including 4,300 teenagers. The rest of the collected data came from users in India.
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