Facebook to remove its VPN app from Apple’s App Store for misuse of user data

Onavo Protect is a VPN app that Facebook bought back in 2013. It’s life on the shelves of Apple’s App Store is about to expire today as the developer has agreed to take it down voluntarily.

Facebook bought the app not only to provide users with secure internet connection, but most importantly, to gather data about their online habits that go beyond Facebook and its affiliate apps.

The move comes after Apple added new privacy rules in June 2018 that were meant to stop developers for selling bulk user information to third parties. It appears that Onavo Protect wasn’t complying with ...

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