Australia sues Facebook over its use of Onavo to snoop

Australia sues Facebook over its use of Onavo to snoop

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/16/australia-sues-facebook-over-its-use-of-onavo-to-snoop/

Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes.

The ACCC’s case accuses Facebook of false, misleading or deceptive conduct toward thousands of Australian consumers, after it had promoted the Onavo Protect app — saying it would keep users personal activity data private, protected and secret and not use it for any other purpose, when it was being used to gather data to help Facebook’s business.