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Facebook Faces Court Action Over Secret Data Harvesting Australia’s consumer regulator has taken social media giant Facebook to court for secretly harvesting the data of users via its VPN subsidiary Onavo Protect. Onavo, which was acquired by Facebook in 2013, was spruiked as a free virtual private network (VPN) service supposed to “save, measure, and protect” user data, according to promotional ads. However, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleges that between February 2016 to October 2017, Onavo secretly collected, aggregated, and used “significant amounts” of user data for Facebook’s commercial benefit, in turn, misleading consumers. Advertising promotion for the Onavo Protect VPN which is owned by Facebook (ACCC)

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