After coming under fire earlier this year for quietly paying users between the ages of 13 and 35 up to $20 a month in most cases for permission to install a “Facebook Research” VPN on their phones, Facebook found itself having to defend what sounded from the outside like an extremely sketchy practice.
It wasn’t totally clear, for example, that all the teens and adults involved in Facebook’s study were completely aware of what degree of privacy they were giving up by letting Facebook have access to their data.
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Facebook will pay you to let it spy on you originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:04:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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