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Facebook Shuts Down iOS Version of Data-Sucking VPN After Damning Report

Social platform is still paying Android users to mine their personal data

Some of those mobile phone users involved in the project were as young as 13 years old, TechCrunch found.Courtesy Getty Images
By Kelsey Sutton

January 30, 2019

Facebook has shut the iOS version of a Facebook app that had allowed the social media giant to spy on young mobile phone users in exchange for cash—but the company will continue to pay young people who use Android devices in exchange for their detailed mobile phone and web browsing activity.

Kelsey Sutton

Kelsey Sutton is the streaming editor at Adweek, where she covers the business of streaming television.

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