[GTALUG] Onavo VPN: Facebook wants your privacy

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 at 11:33, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> Onavo is a VPN feature that Facebook offers.
>
> It turns out that Facebook spies on this VPN traffic.  And, once
> installed, spies on your traffic even if the VPN is turned off!
>
> Wow.
>
> I don't think that it works on Linux (except Android Linux).
>
> <
> https://www.findvpn.com/facebook-onavo-vpn-collects-user-data-even-when-it-is-disabled/
> >
> <
> https://gizmodo.com/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-download-onavo-facebook-s-vam-1822937825
> >
> <
> https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/12/facebook-starts-pushing-its-data-tracking-onavo-vpn-within-its-main-mobile-app/
> >
>
> (My daughter pointed this out to me.)
>

Lovely.

On the happier end of the spectrum, Firefox has an extension to combat
Facebook data collection.

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/

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