Facebook just shut down the iPhone version of the most despicable spying program it ever created

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Facebook keeps promising it’ll do better to serve its customers, but more and more reports reveal nasty surprises about the way it conducts its business. Because Facebook and all its other products are free to use online services, they need to make money off of ads, so Facebook has to collect plenty of data from consumers. It’s the same thing Google does, and it’s a compromise that works for many people. But it’s one thing to collect browsing data, and quite another to spy on people via research apps that pay users, including minors, a low monthly fee in exchange to everything that happens on a mobile device.

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Facebook just shut down the iPhone version of the most despicable spying program it ever created originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 06:50:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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