







Onavo, Inc. was an Israeli mobile web analytics company that was purchased by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms), who changed the company's name to Facebook Israel.[1] The company primarily performed its activities via consumer mobile apps, including the virtual private network (VPN) service Onavo Protect, which analysed web traffic sent through the VPN to provide statistics on the usage of other apps.
Apple removes Facebook's Onavo security app from the App Store
Facebook's Onavo app has been used to collect consumer data in addition to providing security.

Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo | TechCrunch
Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them | TechCrunch
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN that lets the company suck in all of

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.

QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
The preliminary results of an investigation by Facebook shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on the platform.

Kakao Entertainment will unify its webtoon and web novel platforms into "Kakao Page" within this yea.. - MK
Kakao Entertainment will unify its webtoon and web novel platforms into "Kakao Page" within this year. This is to create synergy by integrating distributed businesses into one. As a result, 'Kakao Web..

Report: Kakao is shutting down Tapas webtoon platform
Korean entertainment giant Kakao is shutting down Tapas, their North American webtoon platform, leaving creators and readers devastated

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter remove disinformation targeting Ukraine
Facebook parent company Meta says it has uncovered Russian efforts to undermine trust in the Ukrainian government and to hack Ukrainian military officials and journalists using social media.

Nodiux. A lightweight web app to explore Bluesky decentralized conversations and networks
The rise of Bluesky marks a significant shift in the social media landscape — away from centralized control and toward open, federated protocols. Powered by the AT Protocol, Bluesky enables users t…

One Response to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Block Facebook's
With Facebook in a dominant position in hosting a huge portion of the world’s social conversation, we’ve been worried about the incredible power the company has accumulated and the risks that poses

[Exclusive] Kakao Entertainment to Integrate Webtoon and Web Novel Platforms, Unifying Them Under Kakao Page by Year-End - MK
Kakao Entertainment will consolidate its webtoon and web novel platforms under Kakao Page by the end of the year. The move is aimed at creating synergies by integrating its fragmented businesses into ..

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica: A timeline of the data hijacking scandal
Facebook is desperately trying to mend its damaged reputation following the continued fallout of a massive data scandal.

The promise of ATproto is social media without corporate overlords | The Web Dev Podcast Series 1
Developers building apps on ATproto, the technology behind social media apps like Bluesky and Leaflet, are promising us a future where we own our content and aren’t at the whims of a tiny handful of companies. Software engineer Zeu Capua talks to host Jason Lengstorf about the promise of social media where we can actually own our own data.
Kakao Entertainment Shuts Down Tapas, the North American Webtoon Platform It Invested ₩1.1 Trillion In — Accelerating Business Integration — BigGo Finance
South Korea's Kakao Entertainment is shutting down Tapas, the North American webtoon platform it acquired in 2021 for approximately ₩1.1 trillion…

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Apple bans Facebook's Research app that paid users for data | TechCrunch

Facebook snooped on Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal

Copycat: How Facebook Tried to Squash Snapchat

Project 'Ghostbusters': Facebook secretly spied on Snapchat data, docs allege

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch
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