Facebook to pull down controversial Onavo VPN app over snooping practices

Updated:6 years, 8 months ago

New Delhi, Feb 23 (ANI): Facebook has decided to pull out its controversial Onavo VPN app off the Google Play Store after it was revealed that the app's code was used in a Facebook Research app that accessed data about teens. The Onavo app will eventually shut down and will immediately stop pulling out data from its users for market research. Onavo was claimed to use a secure VPN network for users' personal information, but mentioned that it would collect the time one spends on using apps, mobile, and Wi-Fi data, websites accessed, country, device, and network type. Facebook has now decided that instead of providing VPN for data access, it will focus on reward-based market research.

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