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Facebook-owned free apps are data-hungriest, study finds – 24HTECH.ASIA Damien Black Senior Journalist Updated on: 17 August 2022 Image by Shutterstock Often marketed as free and convenient tools, business apps may seem like an attractive proposition. But many of them are also hungrily mining user data, with big names like Facebook, PayPal, Glassdoor, and eBay found to be the most invasive. The corporations behind the so-called “freeware” model are deliberately obscuring their true terms and conditions to make users more compliant, claims OnDeck, the company that carried out the research. And none more so than Big Tech corporations, its study...
