Meta Sued for Skirting Apple Privacy Rules to Steal Users Data

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Lawsuits allege unauthorized collection of personal data privacy researcher Felix Krause explains. Meta denies claims, says it 'respects users' privacy choices'.

Further, Krause explained that the code used by facebook and instagram apps for Apple's iOS inject JavaScript code onto websites visited by users to track, intercept, monitor, and record its users interactions and communications.

In a proposed class-action complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, two Facebook users accused the company of skirting Apple’s 2021 privacy rules and violating state and federal laws limiting the unauthorized collection of personal data. A similar complaint was filed in the same court last week.

No surprise to many as Meta has specifically said they were expected to miss out on over $10 billion in ad revenue in 2022 because of Apple privacy rules to ask permission before personal data is tracked. Meta works around this rule bby opening web links in an in-app browser rather than the user's default browser. According to Robert Burnson of Bloomberg.

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