Facebook to shut down its controversial market research app on iOS
Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 9:37PM 
TechCrunch
It’s been evident in the past few months that Facebook isn’t the champion for its users’ privacy and data. And it seems the company has reached a new kind of low in the name of market research purposes.
TechCrunch reported on Tuesday that Facebook has been paying volunteers aged 13 to 35 monthly US$20 gift cards for near-total access to data from their phones. They needed to install an app called Facebook Research on iOS and Android, which monitors phone and web activity and sends this back to Facebook. The app needs users to install custom root certificate, which gives Facebook access to the volunteers’ information. Apple has called foul and says Facebook is violating Apple’s policy. The social network responds by taking it out of iOS—but it’ll remain available for Android users.