Bloomberg/Yahoo headline: Meta Sued for Skirting Apple Privacy Rules to Snoop on Users
Robert Burnson
Thu, September 22, 2022 at 12:17 PM
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-sued-skirting-apple-priv…
(Bloomberg) – Meta Platforms Inc. was sued for allegedly building a secret work-around to safeguards that Apple Inc. launched last year to protect iPhone users from having their internet activity tracked.
In a proposed class-action complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, two Facebook users accused the company of skirting Apple’s 2021 privacy rules and violating state and federal laws limiting the unauthorized collection of personal data. A similar complaint was filed in the same court last week.
The suits are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, who said that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaScript code onto websites visited by users. Krause said the code allowed the apps to track “anything you do on any website,” including typing passwords.
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