Facebook Shuts Down Controversial Program to Pay Apple Users for Data

Facebook Shuts Down Controversial Program to Pay Apple Users for Data

5 years ago
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http://time.com/5516301/facebook-apple-data-program/

(Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. will shut down a program to pay iPhone users for sharing their personal data, following a report disclosing controversial details of the effort including that some participants were teenagers.

The social networking company paid people aged 13 to 35 as much as $20 a month to install the Facebook Research App, track phone and web usage habits, according to a TechCrunch story. The program sidestepped Apple’s App Store and gave Facebook root access to network traffic in what may have been a violation of Apple policy, the story said. The app will be discontinued on Apple’s iOS, though it will continue to run on Android devices.