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Shocking! Facebook Parent Meta Sued for Skirting Apple Rules to Snoop on iPhone Users
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Shocking! Facebook Parent Meta Sued for Skirting Apple Rules to Snoop on iPhone Users

[ad_1] Facebook parent Meta was sued for allegedly building a secret work-around to Apple safeguards that protect iPhone users from having their activity tracked. Meta Platforms Inc. was sued for allegedly building a secret work-around to safeguards that Apple Inc. launched last year to protect iPhone users from having their internet activity tracked. 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. The suits are based on a report by data privacy researcher Fel...