FB paid teens $20 to access their data’
Agencies | Jan 31, 2019, 07:41 IST
Representative imageNEW YORK: Facebook paid users, including teens, to track their smartphone activity as part of an effort to glean more data that could help the firm’s competition efforts, according to a new report.
On Tuesday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook was paying $20 a month to users aged 13 to 35 to install an app called Facebook Research. The app used Apple’s business tools to ask for an iPhone user’s permission to install VPN software onto their devices which would then track what it did, with “nearly limitless access”. That included seeing kids’ private messages, watching them as they used the internet and tracking browsing habits.
Apple said on Wednesday that it had banned Facebook from distributing the app. Facebook said the programme was being wrongly represented and that it had secured users’ permission.
On Tuesday, TechCrunch reported that Facebook was paying $20 a month to users aged 13 to 35 to install an app called Facebook Research. The app used Apple’s business tools to ask for an iPhone user’s permission to install VPN software onto their devices which would then track what it did, with “nearly limitless access”. That included seeing kids’ private messages, watching them as they used the internet and tracking browsing habits.
Apple said on Wednesday that it had banned Facebook from distributing the app. Facebook said the programme was being wrongly represented and that it had secured users’ permission.
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