Apple says that the Facebook broke an agreement, which it made with Apple by publishing a “research” app for iPhone users that allowed the social giant to collect all kinds of the personal data about the users. The app allowed Facebook to track user’s app history, their location data, web browsing activity, and their private messages. ‘Facebook research’ effort reportedly targeted users as young as 13 years old.
Apple ejected Facebook from the business app program, saying that the program was “solely for the internal distribution of apps within an organization.”
Apple said, “The Facebook paid their users ages 13 – 35 as much as $20 per month plus referral fees for participating in the research program by downloading the ‘Facebook Research’ app on iOS or Android Facebook, which has been using their membership to distribute a data collecting app to the consumers, is clear breach of their agreement with Apple.”
On the otherside, Facebook said in a statement, “Facebook Research App wasn’t ‘spying’ as all of the people who signed up to participate went through a clear on-boarding process asking for their permission and were paid to participate.
According to Facebook Statement, fewer than 5 % of the participants in the program were teens and that all of those teens, who installed the app, had signed parental consent forms.
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