The technology – which Facebook won’t use in its own apps – subtly distorts face images so they’re still recognizable, but not to machines.
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Facebook got 187,000 users’ data with snoopy VPN app
According to a letter it sent to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, that’s 31,000 US users, with the rest in India.
Google says sorry for pulling a Facebook with monitoring program
It was using the same Apple enterprise back door as Facebook to get its market research done, but it owned up and backed off.
Apple kicks Facebook’s snoopy Research app out of the App Store
It was paying people, including teens, up to $20 to install an app that got root access for “nearly limitless access,” encryption or no.