Facebook planned to spy on Android phone users, internal emails reveal
Internal emails also reveal plans by Facebook to pass data on single Facebook users to companies selling dating services or organisations that wanted to target single people with ‘political’ advertisements. The documents, marked confidential, reveal a secret programme by Facebook’s ‘Growth Team’ to collect and exploit data from customers with Android mobile phones. Their disclosures come only a week after a critical report by a UK parliamentary committee investigating disinformation and fake news, called for independent regulator to oversee Facebook and other social media companies.
22 Feb 2019 ... Facebook planned to use its Android app to track the location of its customers and to allow advertisers to send political advertising and invites to ...