Apple’s significant iOS privacy upgrade last year made it much more difficult for applications to follow user activity outside of their own boundaries, but a new complaint claims that Facebook and Instagram parent firm Meta continued to spy via a loophole.
The lawsuit, which is included below and filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that Meta circumvented Apple’s new limits by monitoring users using Facebook’s in-app browser, which opens links inside the app. The planned class-action lawsuit, originally reported by Bloomberg, might enable anybody harmed to join, which could include hundreds of millions of US users in Facebook’s case.
