Facebook has filed lawsuits today in both the US and the UK against MobiBurn , a UK software company that provided advertising tools for mobile app developers. In particular, MobiBurn provided an advertising software development kit (SDK) that allowed app developers to embed ads inside their applications and monetize user behavior. But in a lawsuit filed today, Facebook claims the SDK contained malicious code that illegally collected the personal data of Facebook users. Facebook said the data was collected when users installed any mobile app that contained the MobiBurn advertising SDK. When this happened, the code would activate and collect a person’s name, time zone, email address, and gender. “Security researchers first flagged MobiBurn’s behavior to us as part of our data abuse bounty program,” said Jessica Romero, Facebook’s Director of Platform Enforcement and Litigation. MobiBurn declined to participate in an audit However, while Facebook was handling this report internally, these findings also made it into the press in November 2019, when CNBC run an article detailing MobiBurn’s practices. The same article also accused OneAudience, another company that provided an advertising SDK, for engaging in similar practices. A day after the CNBC report, both SDK makers posted messages on their… Read full this story
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