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Apple is doing more to police Facebook than the U.S. government
When Apple said on Wednesday that, in response to a revelation that Facebook was monitoring minors’ cellphone usage, it would curtail the platform’s ability to distribute apps, it overshadowed the U.S. government as a regulator of the company’s privacy practices. Apple’s action comes after TechCrunch revealed on Tuesday that Facebook had been paying users since 2016, including some minors, as much as $20 a month to install a “Facebook Research” app on their phones allowing the social media company collect large amounts of the users’ data and activity.
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