Mornings With Mark

Facebook continues to do anything they can to build data profiles on users. This week it was revealed that they shifted their Onavo efforts to a new "research" project where they targeted 13-35 year olds via 3rd party market research companies. Users where then guided to installed a customer application that provided deep access to their data. For this they were compensated about $20/month. Ethics aside. Apple developer policies aside. Is $20/month worth trading off your privacy for? References: Josh Constantine for TechCrunch on the initial VPN app scheme, https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/ details on Apple's enterprise application options, https://developer.apple.com/business/integrate/ Josh again on Apple's reaction to the situation, https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/ Yael Grauer for Motherboard on the data broker industry, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpx3w/what-are-data-brokers-and-how-to-stop-my-private-data-collection research fro