Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity

Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity

Facebook has run a program to collect intimate user data from paid volunteers for the past three years, according to a new report. TechCrunch reported that the company has been paying people ages 13 to 25 as much as $20 month in exchange for installing an app called Facebook Research on iOS or Android, which monitors their phone and web activity and sends it back to Facebook. The company confirmed the existence of the research program to TechCrunch.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18202880/facebook-research-enterprise-root-certificate-onavo-techcrunch?source=Snapzu

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