Facebook users sue Meta, accusing the company of tracking on iOS through a loophole

Facebook users sue Meta, accusing the company of tracking on iOS through a loophole

2 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-lawsuit-ios-privacy/

Apple’s major privacy update to iOS last year made it much more difficult for apps to track user behavior beyond their own borders, but a new lawsuit alleges that Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta kept snooping through a workaround.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and embedded below, alleges that Meta evaded Apple’s new restrictions by monitoring users through Facebook’s in-app browser, which opens links within the app. The proposed class-action lawsuit, first reported by Bloomberg, could allow anyone affected to sign on, which in Facebook’s case might mean hundreds of millions of U.S. users.