Meta sued for illegally gathering user data

• Facebook and Instagram’s iOS apps evade App Tracking Transparency, according to a class-action lawsuit.
• Suit also claims that Facebook opens web links in its own in-app browser.
• Recent sources indicate that Meta is the subject of a class action lawsuit

Recent sources indicate that Meta is the subject of a class action lawsuit. According to the report, Facebook and Instagram’s iOS apps are evading App Tracking Transparency in order to conduct unauthorized tracking of users.

Since iOS 14, all iPhone users know that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) rules say that apps can’t track users unless they have clear permission to do so.

Meta has been known to disagree with ATT and show that it changed its projected earnings by more than $10 billion.
Some reports say that a new class-action lawsuit would say that the owner of Facebook and Instagram has been getting around ATT and collecting user data regardless of their settings and preferences. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco.

It is based on research by Felix Krause, who used to work at Google and now does research on data privacy. Krause says that Facebook and Instagram add JavaScript code to websites that users visit. This is important to note. Then, Facebook can use JavaScript code to keep track of “everything you do on any website.”

It goes beyond just tracking ads, and in theory it could even catch passwords that people type into sites. The lawsuit also says that Facebook opens web links in its own in-app browser instead of using Safari or whatever the user’s default browser is.

“This allows Meta to intercept, monitor, and record its users’ interactions and communications with third parties” theThe suit  said.

According to the lawsuit, Facebook’s data collection practises go against user preferences in order to increase advertising revenue. But Facebook hasn’t said anything about the lawsuit in public. But reports say that the company admitted that it watches what people do in their browsers but denied that it did so illegally.

The US District Court for the Northern District of California is where both cases have been filed (San Francisco). See what happens next. Keep an eye out for more news.

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