Facebook files lawsuit against data analytics company One Audience
Facebook has filed a lawsuit in the US against a New Jersey-based data analytics company, One Audience.
Facebook claims One Audience improperly accessed and collected Facebook’s user data by paying app developers to install a malicious Software Development Kit (SDK) into apps.
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Security researchers first flagged One Audience’s alleged behaviour as part of Facebook’s data abuse bounty program. The program was announced in April 2018 in a bid to “more quickly uncover potential abuse of people’s information”. Facebook said the program will reward people with first-hand knowledge and proof of cases where a Facebook platform app collects and transfers people’s data to another party to be sold, stolen or used for scams or political influence.
