A new lawsuit alleges that Facebook purposefully bypassed safeguards introduced by Apple last year to protect iPhone users from having their data tracked and collected by apps without their knowledge.
that Facebook has been sued for allegedly developing a secret workaround to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy features that allowed Facebook to track users browsing activity.A proposed class-action lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court in which two Facebook users accused the social media giant of bypassing Apple’s 2021 privacy rules and violating state and federal laws that limit the unauthorized collection of personal data.
onto websites visited by users. Krause said that the code allowed the apps to track “anything you do on any website,” including typing passwords.. The tool reveals just how much information these apps track. To use the tool, open the app that you want to check and share the InAppBrowser.com URL somewhere within it, such as by DMing the link to another account or posting it in a comment.
Facebook acknowledged that the Facebook app monitors browser activity but denied that it was illegally collecting user data. The suit claims that Facebook’s tracking of web links that are opened in an in-ap browser gives the company access to personal user data.
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