Facebook has introduced a new security feature called Protect to users of its iOS app. Name
The fact is that Facebook acquired the companyOnavo, focused on developing security programs, back in 2013. Thus, it is this social network that owns the iOS application called Onavo Protect, which is hiding modestly in the settings of the Facebook application under the Protect label (“Protection”).
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While users are downloadingA VPN application in order to gain the promised “peace of mind” and “an additional level of security”, Facebook collects and analyzes user data in order to improve its own service - goods and services.
Let's take a look at the program description.Only after a paragraph with information about the protection that Onavo provides and several paragraphs describing how the service works, the company warns that the software is essentially spyware. This information is prudently hidden under an additional “More” link both in the App Store itself and on the English version of the iTunes website. It is worth noting that in the translated version of the site (in Russian) this warning is currently absent altogether.
As part of this Onavo protection leveluses a VPN to establish a secure connection to manage all your network communications through Onavo servers. During this process, Onavo collects traffic from your mobile data. This helps us improve and optimize Onavo services based on an analysis of your use of websites, applications and data. Since we are part of Facebook, we also use this data to improve the quality of Facebook products and services, to obtain information about products and services that users value, and to improve the experience.
Although some may be calm about the exchangeprivacy of their data to a free VPN client, but many users are likely not even aware that Onavo Protect is specialized Facebook spyware, and may fall into the social network's marketing trap - both in the settings of the Facebook application itself and on the App Store .
It is known that the Onavo Protect program is already33 million users installed, among which 38% are iPhone and iPad owners, while the remaining 62% are Android device owners.