Facebook’s Onavo Removed from Apple Store Due to Privacy Concerns
The technology giant Apple has removed the Facebook-owned security app Onavo from the Apple Store. This step has been taken because the app failed to follow the privacy policy and rules of the tech major.
It was reported that the app was gathering information about the other apps present on the users' iPhones for the purpose of advertising or marketing. With this, Facebook was able to know how people use smartphones outside of its own services.
"We work hard to protect user privacy and data security throughout the Apple ecosystem," an Apple spokesperson said. "With the latest update to our guidelines, we made it explicitly clear that apps should not collect information about which other apps are installed on a user's device for the purposes of analytics or advertising/marketing and mus...
