Facebook is having a very bad year. Not long ago there was a scandal related to Cambridge Analytica According to proven facts, Facebook favored access to user data by the British company, with which they were able to create campaigns that influenced user behavior. some users.
This scandal caused Zuckerberg to go to testify both to the US Senate and the European Parliament. And it seems that the bad year of Facebook doesn't end there. Several days ago Apple "kindly" asked Facebook to withdraw from the App Store Onavo, the Virtual Private Network that Facebook acquired several years ago, for violate the rules of the App Store
Onavo VPN from Facebook acts almost like spyware
This requested removal has become effective today and most App Store in the world cannot download said VPN. This VPN was purchased and launched by Facebook, in theory, to protect its users from potential fraud and dangerous websites. But it seems to be doing just the opposite.
Apple's request to remove this app was for the collection of massive data from its users and its sale to third parties The collection of data byOnavo is such that it collects all the data of the navigation carried out through this VPN .
That is, it does the opposite of what a Virtual Private Network should do. By using a VPN, in theory, we navigate safely and without leaving a trace. Well, using the Onavo VPN from Facebook, the latter collected all the browsing data associating it with the person (due to its integration with Facebook).
In this way, they found out much more data about the users of Facebook. In addition, not only was it limited to that, but Onavo controlled which apps were opened and the time they were used by the more than 30 million users of the application.
Bad year for Facebook and for privacy, of course. And not because of its users, but because of Facebook's desire to obtain as much data as possible from its users. From now on, unlike Android, this VPN (which could be almost a spyware) will not be able to be installed, luckily, on iOS devices.
