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| Australia: Facebook uses Onavo to hack |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed a lawsuit in 2016 and 2017 over Facebook's use of the Onavo app to monitor users for commercial purposes.
When the Australian Commission used the app to collect data to grow its business, the Australian commission accused the Commission of wrong, misleading and misleading acts against thousands of Australian consumers.
Facebook declares that the Onavo app handles users' personal activity data private, protected and confidential, and that you do not use it for other purposes.
“Facebook, through Onavo, has collected very valuable and detailed data about the personal activities of thousands of Australian consumers for commercial purposes,” said Rod Sims, Chair of the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC).
He added: We think this is completely inconsistent with the protection, privacy and privacy obligations that Facebook has to promote for this app.
The Australian Commission stated that VPN services are widely used by consumers. Since they care about their online privacy, and this privacy is supposed to be provided by Facebook products, they actually broadcast a large amount of personal activity data directly to Facebook.
The panel said this behavior deprived Australian consumers the opportunity to make informed decisions about Facebook's collection of personal activity data.
The Anti-Corruption and White Collar Crime Commission alleged that between February 1, 2016 and October 2017, Facebook and its affiliates misled the functionality of the free downloadable Onavo app, misleading Australian consumers.
The regulator said it wanted to fix Facebook, and a company spokesperson said: We've always been aware of what information we collect and how people use it to download it. By Onavo.
She added: We have so far worked with the ACCC investigation on this and are looking at recent contributions from the committee. We will continue to defend this deposit.
Last year, Facebook announced that the Onavo app, acquired in 2013, had been shut down due to strong opposition to its use of invading users.
Internal Facebook documents show that data from the Onavo app is used as a source of business information. To understand the external application the user is interacting with.
Data collected by Onavo shows that WhatsApp poses a competitive threat to Facebook Messenger.
Soon after Facebook gained this kind of market exposure, it spent billions of dollars buying competing products.