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Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store (cnbc.com)
Apple has removed Facebook's Onavo security app from the App Store because it violated the company's privacy rules. In a statement to CNBC, an Apple spokesperson said: "We work hard to protect user privacy and data security throughout the Apple ecosystem. With the latest update to our guidelines, we made it explicitly clear that apps should not collect information about which other apps are installed on a user's device for the purposes of analytics or advertising/marketing and must make it clear what user data will be collected and how it will be used." From the report: According to a Wall Street Journal story on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter, Apple officials told Facebook last week that Onavo violated the company's rules on data collection by developers, and suggested last Thursday that Facebook voluntarily remove the app. Facebook acquired Israel-based Onavo in 2013, snapping up the free security app that lets users access a virtual private network, or VPN, to browse the web and download apps with a greater degree of privacy. Facebook in the past has offered that service to users without clearly disclosing that its owns the app, and has collected data about what other types of apps those customers use. In June, Facebook told Congress that it does not use Onavo data "for Facebook product uses" or to collect information about individuals, but it has admitted to using Onavo to gather broad information about which apps are popular and how people are using them, which it uses to improve its own products.
Too bad this isn't a fight to the death.
AC a VPN should be expected not to collect on any usage. Thats the reason for getting a VPN.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
AC a VPN should offer that "privacy" part of VPN. Not just the "network" part.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
This is why I love Apple and pay premium prices for their stuff. They care about their customers.
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I already told A LOT about me to Facebook, on my own volition. What they are able to collect with Onavo is peanuts in comparison.
I also tend to recomend Onavo, but ONLY in facebook. After all, if some contact of mine reads my recomendation in Facebook, it means that they too have given FB enough info so far that what FB collects through Onavo is peanuts.
I use Onavo in my android Phone. Onavo is easy to set up, easy to use, free, mantained by a well known company that will be here tomorrow, and let's me access sites my oppresive government deems unappropiate, as well as sites that are collateral damage of the censorship. I do not need to define the country I use to connect, nor am I torrenting, or streaming on my phone.
What's not to like? Spying? Again, I told FB all they need to know, whatever they gather through Onavo is peanuts.
On my Mac, on the other hand, I use ProtonVPN, where (I think) they are not spying on me, I can chose the country, I can Torrent* or stream if so I please, and have a VM with TAILS (yes, I know, TAILS on a VM is not the most secure, but I have no money for 2 PCs, and booting TAILS from a pen-drive is a pain in the nuts).
Moral of the story is: use the tool best fitted for the job.
And in the end, I'd rather have mark suckerberg spying on me than Nicolas Maduro...
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AC the reason to use such a product is not to be collected on.
Getting collected on further down the network is not what was expected.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Facebook violated user privacy.
Did they though? In the apps description of what it does, they clearly tell you that they collect your mobile data traffic and analyze your use of websites, apps, and data.
"To provide this layer of protection, Onavo uses a VPN to establish a secure connection to direct all of your network communications through Onavo's servers. As part of this process, Onavo collects your mobile data traffic. This helps us improve and operate the Onavo service by analyzing your use of websites, apps and data. Because we're part of Facebook, we also use this info to improve Facebook products and services, gain insights into the products and services people value, and build better experiences."
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Its not "wishful thinking" when its collecting on the user AC... that would be a question of design.
To collect or not to collect.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
This is the right thing to do but I'm in interested in the technical detail - I thought apps were sandboxed and couldn't know about each other. How did it collect info? Are they talking network destinations via the VPN, or actual on-device discovery of apps.
Is Venezuela socialist?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
They should be forced to delete any data they have collected, permanently and irreversibly.
No, it's a messed up dictatorship run by a former bus driver who is way out of his depth.
No, it's a messed up dictatorship run by a former bus driver who is way out of his depth.
When I lived in Venezuela, the bus drivers (who owned their own buses) were upper middle class. Some of them made over US$100 a day. My apartment at the time cost me US$10 per month. I usually spent about US$5 a week on groceries. Most of them were not well educated, but their children often were. However, most of them were pretty smart people. They just lacked the opportunity to learn more. I'm not trying to say anything about Maduro. He's obviously a tool. But the kinds of people who had the time and money to run for public office there were the upper middle class. The truly rich people were too busy exploiting everyone else to actually wield power directly themselves. I expect most of them have left the country by now.
When companies say "which it uses to improve its own products" you have to think, what is the product? One of Facebook's products is aggregated data about FB users. So any kind of covert information gathering is used to improve their product of providing information.
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I was asking the man who actually lives in Venezuela, not people anxious to remove the taint of yet another horrible failure from the "good brand" of socialism. For you, here's Jeremy Corbyn, a man who has been a socialist all his life and who knows socialism when he sees it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Chavez ... showed us that there is a different, and a better way of doing things. It's called socialism".
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Chavez is long dead you moron.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
apple's makin moves!... was actually just reading about this re onavo - https://acreto.io/facebook/fac... - i reckon they're on to something, the Book's after your IoTs, devices, etc. what's next???
As for Maduro, he publicly called Bernie Sanders "our revolutionary friend" and praised his candidacy. Pretty odd thing for a non-socialist to do.
Tourists flock not to the beaches, but the slums to see '21st-century socialism'
From a trickle a few years ago there are now thousands, travelling individually and on package tours, exploring a leftwing mecca which promises to build social justice in the form of "21st century socialism".
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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It doesn't matter if they own up to doing it when it's against Apple's rules for developers.
So Venezuela magically became non-socialist when he died? How does that work?
The same way the US became a undemocratic shithole when Trump was (or rather wasn't) elected.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
The "transit" part is secure until its collected on. The collection part should not be happening AC.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
It's always a pleasure to see whataboutism deployed for its original purpose, distracting from the failures of socialism.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It's always a pleasure to see whataboutism deployed for its original purpose, distracting from the failures of socialism.
You know as much about whataboutism as about Socialism as about just about anything you can't stop talking about - if you knew how to do an image search the Dunning-Kruger-effect, you'd find your face.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
OK this is funny now - in addition to more whataboutism, you're now using the ad hominem fallacy. At no point did you refute or even address the fact that Venezuela is socialist.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Hey, don*t blame me for you being stupid, and for me having to point it out to you, because you are obviously too stupid to notice.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
You've got no arguments - absolutely nothing. Just childish insults. Boy, it must burn watching your favorite socialist country fall apart.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!