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Facebook Sues Analytics Firm for Allegedly Harvesting User Data

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 01 2020, @10:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the about-to-get-caught-again dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Facebook on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court against OneAudience, claiming the New Jersey-based analytics company paid developers to install a malicious software development kit in their apps that could later be used to improperly harvest user data from the social network.

In the lawsuit, Facebook alleges that OneAudience paid developers, sometimes shopping and game app makers, to include the SDK in their apps, some of which were distributed on the Google Play store. When a user installed and logged into one of the apps, the SDK allowed OneAudience to collect information, Facebook says.

The harvested information included names, email addresses, locales, time zones, Facebook IDs and sometimes gender information, Facebook said.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 02 2020, @11:01AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Monday March 02 2020, @11:01AM (#965430) Homepage
    Facebook harvests data.
    App requests user data through facebook's api.
    Facebook gives app user data.

    Who *really* was responsible for the user data getting out?
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