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minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoBy paying people $20 / month in exchange for installing a VPN that will snoop on your data so they can market research their competitors. It is unacceptable, but it wasn’t in secret from the users. They agreed to get paid in exchange for the usage data of competitor apps. So it’s a completely different situation to any “secretly spying” claim. The users had to go out of their way to get it setup.
minus-squareInternetPerson@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago it wasn’t in secret Did I misread something? It even says in the title of the linked article, that it was a “secret project”.
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYes, it was secret in the sense they didn’t want their competitors knowing about it. It wasn’t secret to people who were invited and signed up for the program.
minus-squareInternetPerson@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIt was already ruled that they failed to sufficiently disclose which information was used and how. https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/
By paying people $20 / month in exchange for installing a VPN that will snoop on your data so they can market research their competitors.
It is unacceptable, but it wasn’t in secret from the users. They agreed to get paid in exchange for the usage data of competitor apps.
So it’s a completely different situation to any “secretly spying” claim. The users had to go out of their way to get it setup.
Did I misread something? It even says in the title of the linked article, that it was a “secret project”.
Yes, it was secret in the sense they didn’t want their competitors knowing about it.
It wasn’t secret to people who were invited and signed up for the program.
It was already ruled that they failed to sufficiently disclose which information was used and how.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-court-fines-facebook-owner-meta-14-mln-undisclosed-data-collection-2023-07-26/