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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app

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Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

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Free security app 'knows nearly everything' about users, court told as Facebook owners Meta fined $20m

The Federal Court hears Meta used a free security app promoted as protecting data but the tech giant used it to find out "nearly everything" users were doing on their devices.

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