Facebook apparently offered users of a special research app money in the past to access all the data stored on the smartphone. The collection of this data should probably serve to analyse the online behaviour of users.
Facebook itself immediately admitted to this collection of data, but also announced that it would not stop the behavior at all. The users of the „Facebook Research“ app had finally agreed to access numerous personal data and would be remunerated for doing so.
In the past, users of the app were between fifteen and 35 years old. They received up to twenty dollars a month. They gave the research app access to personal chats, photos and videos sent, websites visited, online services used and smartphone location data. Facebook also invited individual users to submit screenshots of their Amazon orders.
This extensive access to personal data allowed Facebook to thoroughly analyze the online behavior of users in the primarily advertising-relevant target group of the social...
