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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by bduerst on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:16AM (#18609582)
Interesting, didn't know that. Did Onavo have access to data that other public BI firms don't?
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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:17AM (#18609593)
> Did Onavo have access to data that other public BI firms don't?

Yes. Onavo built “consumer-facing apps to help optimise device and app performance and battery life on iOS and Android devices” [1] while piping their users’ data to Facebook.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/facebook-buys-mobile-analy...

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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by bduerst on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:27AM (#18609703)
So they were basically the spamware apps like flashlight and other 'performance enhancers'? That makes this kind of worse, especially if they continued it after acquisition.
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Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs by traek on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:49PM (#18612386)
Not really, they built an actual data compression VPN for users with limited data plans and did traffic analysis on the data that went through that pipe.
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