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Interesting, didn't know that. Did Onavo have access to data that other public BI firms don't?

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > Did Onavo have access to data that other public BI firms don't? Yes. Onavo built “consumer-facing apps to help optimise device and app performance and battery life on iOS and Android devices” [1] while piping their users’ data to Facebook. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/facebook-buys-mobile-analytics-company-onavo-and-finally-gets-its-office-in-israel/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/facebook-buys-mobile-analy...
  • bduerst 8y ago
    So they were basically the spamware apps like flashlight and other 'performance enhancers'? That makes this kind of worse, especially if they continued it after acquisition.
    • traek 8y ago
      Not really, they built an actual data compression VPN for users with limited data plans and did traffic analysis on the data that went through that pipe.