Teenagers paid for access to their phones
Reported. Documented by journalists, researchers or Meta’s own files, with no legal finding. How evidence is labeled
Since 2016, Facebook had paid people aged 13 to 35 up to $20 a month in gift cards to install a “Research” app with root access to their phone traffic. Some minors only had to tick a box claiming parental consent. Facebook ended the program on iPhone after TechCrunch reported it.
In their words“There was nothing ‘secret’ about this; it was literally called the Facebook Research App.” (Facebook, 2019)
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