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“The traders claim to have obtained the data by scraping rather than hacking or compromising individual users’ accounts.”

The full headline is “Facebook paid billions extra to the FTC to spare Zuckerberg in data suit, shareholders allege”. This is just an allegation.

This is answered in the article:

> Facebook said all the data collected remained on users' phones not servers.

> A Huawei spokesperson said: "Like all leading smartphone providers, Huawei has worked with Facebook to make Facebook's services more convenient for users. Huawei has never collected or stored any Facebook user data."

Yes

The article says this was a deal to have Facebook apps pre-installed on Huawei phones which Facebook also has with other manufacturers. This Reuters article says it was ended in 2019: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-facebook-...

The Bloomberg article that The Verge is referencing says that WhatsApp plans to implement PIX: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-06-23/brazi...