Whereas in fact Apple revoked its certificate due to breaking the terms of the program, and so Facebook had no choice but to end it. Facebook said it was pulling its app in response to criticism.And then, as its activity was exposed, embarked – yet again – on a series of half-truths and lies rather than acknowledge what it was really doing. In Facebook's case, it knowingly broke those rules by encouraging third parties – including children – to download the app and use it. The VPN-based app is similar to one Facebook used to offer called Onavo Protect, which also logged and forward user activity to Facebook, but that app was specifically banned by Apple last year over privacy concerns.įacebook wasn't able to get a similar app approved due to changes in Apple's rules, and so it used the aforementioned enterprise certificate program, run by Apple, that is only for internal-use apps to get around the restrictions, an investigation by TechCrunch this week revealed. So about those promises to stamp out lies, bots, dodgy ads? READ MORE Europe taps Facebook, Google, Twitter on the shoulder.
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