For years, Meta's monopoly and noncompetitive practices have allowed it to violate users' privacy and profit off their ...

Armed with usage data, Facebook offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. When Snap CEO Evan Spiegel refused, Facebook didn’t ...

Now it seems, Facebook is ready to shut down Onavo for good. As TechCrunch reports, Onavo Protect for Android will immediately stop collecting data from users who have it installed.

Onavo, bought by Facebook in 2013, acted as a VPN, masking a user’s location to “keep you and your data safe.” More importantly for the social network, Onavo’s real value was in sharing ...

Some actually track a significant amount of your personal data. Such is the case with Onavo Protect, a VPN Facebook acquired in 2013 that was violating Apple’s App Store policies.

Facebook has axed the Onavo VPN app for Android, pulling it from Google Play half a year after it yanked the iOS version from the Apple App Store. While Onavo was technically a VPN app that ...

Facebook announced it was shutting down Onavo a year ago — in the face of rising controversy about its use of the VPN tool as a data-gathering business intelligence dragnet that’s both hostile ...

Apple had removed the earlier app, Facebook Protect Onavo, from the iOS App Store due to privacy concerns. The app is still available for Android phones on the Google Play Store.

Onavo’s stated purpose and its true purpose were at odds, and the Research program went to some length to not inform participants that it was Facebook conducting the research.