[skeeba]

Facebook will once again begin paying people to monitor how they use their phone through a new app called Study. The app will monitor which apps are installed on a person’s phone, the time spent using those apps, the country you’re in, and additional app data that could reveal specific features you’re using, among other things. Facebook says it won’t see any specific content, however, including messages, passwords, and websites you visit.

Study’s launch comes several months after the company’s last user-tracking research app, Facebook Research, was shut down due to a pair of controversies: as TechCrunch reported, the app was marketed to teens, and on the iPhone, it relied on a special certificate that allowed the app to circumvent the App Store and gain deeper access to the phone, in violation of Apple’s rules. It was shut down in January.

Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/11/18661...-usage-pay

[Drako]

So now that they've failed to monitor everyones data without us knowing, they're just going to buy us out. And there's no way we can actually know what they're tracking with this new service. Facebook has lied to our faces before (no pun intended).

[OGs]

That's just wild.. This is why i don't install facebook no more.