reported that two Facebook users filed a proposed class-action complaint against Meta this Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The users accuse the company of bypassing Apple’s 2021 privacy rules and breaking state and federal laws limiting the collection of personal data.
This was the second lawsuit filed against Meta Platforms over privacy concerns this month. Both are based on a report by security researcher Felix Krause, . Krause claimed that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram iOS apps inject JavaScript code into websites visited through the in-app browser.Links to external websites are rendered inside the Instagram app, instead of using the built-in Safari.
This allows Instagram to monitor everything happening on external websites, without the consent from the user, nor the website provider. The Instagram app injects their JavaScript code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads. Even though the injected script doesn’t currently do this, running custom scripts on third party websites allows them to monitor all user interactions, like every button & link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses and credit card numbers.to clarify a few points.
I told you FB was evil.
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