Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps
Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 12, 20195m 30s
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Show Notes
Three of the Senate’s biggest privacy advocates are sending letters to Facebook, Google, and Apple executives Thursday, following a recent TechCrunch report that Facebook used an iOS and Android app to monitor the phones of users as young as 13 years old. The app, called Research and sometimes referred to as Project Atlas, gave Facebook complete visibility into users' app activity, web searches, encrypted data, and even private messages.
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