For the past three years, Facebook has paid a group of teenagers $ 20 a month each for spying on their smartphone activities, according to an investigation by TechCrunch.
The website said it had contacted Facebook, which it admitted had done so under a research project, using young people between the ages of 13 and 25, who receive a monthly amount, after agreeing to use VPN technology to download Facebook Research.
Facebook justified this move by wanting to better understand the habits of users on their mobile devices, vowing that it would not share this information with others, and group members could stop participating in the research project at any time.
Through this application, Facebook has been able to access the data of the group's teenagers, including data history of their searches on the Internet, information about the sites they are looking for, as well as their messages on social networking applications
The data did not stop at that point, but asked the group to send video footage of their purchases on the Amazon website.
The TechCrunch report said the social networking giant had deceived Apple, which had previously banned a similar application to Facebook's successor, Onavo Protect, last August for violating privacy rules.
But Facebook manipulated Apple this time, and applied Facebook Research through testing services Applause, BetaBound, and uTest, but asked the teenagers involved in its research project to obtain the written consent of their parents.
