Meta sued for building secret workarounds to Apple privacy safeguards

Meta Platforms is being sued for allegedly building a secret work-around to safeguards that Apple launched last year to protect iPhone users from having their internet activity tracked, reports Bloomberg Law.

In a proposed class-action complaint filed Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, two Facebook users accused the company of skirting Apple’s 2021 privacy rules and violating state and federal laws limiting the unauthorized collection of personal data. A similar complaint was filed in the same court last week.

The suits are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause. Last month his report said Facebook and Instagram and track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser.