An Australian court orders Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay fines totaling A$20 million or $14 million for collecting user data through a smartphone application.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/technology/australia-fines-facebook-owner-meta-undisclosed-data-collection/
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/technology/australia-fines-facebook-owner-meta-undisclosed-data-collection/
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00:00 An Australian court orders Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay fines totaling AUD 20 million or US$14 million for collecting user data through a smartphone application.
00:11 The judgment stems from a virtual private network or VPN service Facebook offered from early 2016 to late 2017 called Onavo.
00:19 VPNs obscure an internet user's identity by giving their computer a different online address.
00:25 But findings say Facebook used Onavo to collect users' location, time and frequency using other smartphone apps and websites they visited for its own advertising purposes.
00:35 Meta still faces a civil court action over its dealings with Cambridge Analytica in Australia.
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