Meta said Tuesday that the lawsuit was unfounded. — AFP
Apple Inc told its millions of iPhone users last year that Facebook and other apps could no longer follow their Internet activity without their consent — but Facebook's parent company, Meta, is still tracking them without asking their approval, according to a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court.
A recent report by a data-privacy researcher "revealed that Meta has been injecting code into third-party websites, a practice that allows Meta to track users and intercept data that would otherwise be unavailable to it," lawyers said in the suit, filed last week as a proposed class action on behalf of Apple customers in California and nationwide.
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