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Facebook facing allegations of misleading customers over data
Wednesday December 16, 2020
Facebook is again in strife with regulators after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission started Federal Court action over the social media platform and two of its subsidiaries allegedly harvesting data through its Onavo VPN product when they said they wouldn’t.
Facebook is facing claims of harvesting data. Photo: Thought Catalogue/Unsplash
Onavo Protect was a free downloadable software application that provided a virtual private network (VPN) service.
The ACCC alleged that in 2017, Facebook claimed that the Onavo Protect app would keep users’…
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