Al Ittihad newspaper – Facebook – intends – to stop – to use – the programs – the collection – the data – the users

CAIRO, San Francisco (AFP)

The popular social networking site Facebook plans to stop using free market research programs and proactively replace its application, Unavo VBN, from the Google Play app store, as a result from a report published by TechCrunch on technological issues. A Facebook Research application uses the "Unavo" application code to obtain data on teen internet users.
The network plans to discontinue the program "Onavo Protect" later, while the user data collection activity will stop immediately for marketing studies, while allowing the network application private private to be run in the short term to allow users to find other applications.
At the same time, the Facebook network has ceased to attract new users to apply Facebook Research, which still works with smart devices that run the operating system, "Android", but was forced to the remove from the operating system "IOS" of the device produced by Apple, the US electronics company, after disclosure of the violation of this application to Apple's rules relating to applications.
Unavo has been introduced as a way "to prevent applications from using your data holdings and to use a secure VPN network for your personal information", but it also states that it will collect information about "the time you spend on applications and data The mobile network or Wi-Fi network through which the application is used, the websites visited, the country in which the user is located , the type of device and the network used.
A spokesman for Facebook confirmed the news and said market research was helping companies offer better products to people. "We focused our attention on market research based on money, which means the end of the ONAFO program."
Facebook bought Unavo in 2013 for $ 200 million to use its VBN application to collect user data on their smartphones.