As it stated in Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following TechCrunch's investigation about Onavo code being used in a Facebook Research app the sucked up data about teens. Existing Facebook Research app studies will continue to run, though. But last year, privacy concerns led Apple to push Facebook to remove the Onavo VPN app from the App Store, though it continued running on Google Play. To preempt any more scandals around Onavo and the Facebook Research app and avoid Google stepping in to forcibly block the apps, Facebook is now taking Onavo off the Play Store and stopping recruitment of Research testers. Without Onavo, Facebook loses a powerful method of market research, and its future initiatives here will come at a higher price.
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Facebook pays teens to install an app that could collect all kinds of data
Facebook has been paying people to install an app that allows the tech giant to collect data on how they use their smartphones. Since 2016, the social networking giant has been paying teenagers and adults up to $20 a month plus referral fees to install the so-called "Facebook Research" app on their Apple or Android phones, according to tech news site TechCrunch. A security expert told the publication that the app allows Facebook to collect data including private social media messages, photos and videos sent via instant messaging apps, emails, web searches and web browsing activities. It can also track ongoing location information from other location tracking apps installed in the user's phone, according to the report. A Facebook spokesperson acknowledged the company is running the program to gather data on usage habits and has paid users for their participation.Facebook is testing a whiter UI design in the Android app
as informed in Facebook is testing a whiter UI design in the Android appFacebook elicits a whole host of responses from people. To keep these users engaged on its platform, Facebook is testing out a new whiter color scheme in its Android app. The new UI for the Facebook for Android app gets rid of the prevalent blue accents and adopts a much more whiter look. The new UI brings the Facebook for Android app much closer to the simplified look of the Facebook Messenger. While Facebook Messenger now has a dark mode, we could not locate a dark mode in the official Facebook for Android app.Mark Zuckerberg's vision for Facebook sounds a lot like China, where I couldn't buy a cup of coffee without the app that dominates people's lives there
Over the course of six weeks in China last spring, I saw firsthand how essential WeChat is to modern Chinese life. Make no mistake, despite Zuckerberg's recent overtures to protect user privacy, this kind of business plan is about getting more invasive user data, not less. That kind of data is the long play that it sounds like Facebook has in mind. In China, many Chinese are okay with the ubiquity of apps like WeChat because it comes down to a trade-off between convenience and privacy. Chinese internet services have developed rapidly through widespread access to the user data generated by mobile payments, food deliveries, ride-hailing, messaging, and other services.collected by :Roy Mark
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