06/08/2025

Android Users: Meta Found a New Way to Violate Users' Privacy

Here’s what you can do

Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people's web browsing on Android devices.

No one, including Android owner Google, knew that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps were siphoning people’s data through a digital back door for months. (After the researchers publicized their findings, Meta said it stopped.)

It's not novel that Meta is undermining your privacy. But the tactics the researchers identified were so scuzzy they surprised even those digital privacy experts who have seen every trick in the book.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.