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Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android "Facebook Research" app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page.
[...] Ads for the program run by uTest on Instagram and Snapchat sought teens 13-17 years old for a "paid social media research study." The sign-up page for the Facebook Research program administered by Applause doesn't mention Facebook, but seeks users "Age: 13-35 (parental consent required for ages 13-17)." If minors try to sign-up, they're asked to get their parents' permission with a form that reveal's Facebook's involvement and says "There are no known risks associated with the project, however you acknowledge that the inherent nature of the project involves the tracking of personal information via your child's use of apps. You will be compensated by Applause for your child's participation."
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:40AM (3 children)
Seeking "complete access" to a minor's "data" could be a crime.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:00AM
It's not a crime when you get the permission. Of the Mother -- or Father. Facebook always gets permission. And Roy Moore always gets permission. So sad what the Crooked Dems did to him!!
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Thursday January 31 2019, @01:16PM
They also get access to personal information communicated to those minors by other minors.
FB took my email addresses and phone numbers out of the phones of contacts who had my information, then started spamming each of those email addresses.
Later I used a rooted phone with honey pot phone book entries, and installed the FB app. I refused permission to access the contacts. A short while later those honey pots received email solicitations from FB.
The more surprising part of the story is that they're asking the minors parents (if in fact they actually are) and paying rather than simply taking the data, possibly through a 'free' kids game.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 31 2019, @02:59PM
Seeking complete access to a minor's body could be a crime.
Providing a new feature to allow minors to share and sell pictures of, or access to their bodies would be profitable. Especially if Facebook got a 30% cut similar to Google Play and Apple iTunes.
Nobody would be shocked if Facebook were to do something like that.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.