Meta firms fined in Australia over ‘Onavo Protect’ consumer protection breach

Remember Onavo? The Israeli mobile market intelligence company that Meta (aka Facebook) bought back in 2013 and used to power a free VPN/data management app which claimed to users it would help protect their privacy but did the opposite by sharing usage data with Facebook for the latter’s own business intelligence purposes? The wheeze helped the tech giant figure out which rival apps were popular — feeding its acquisition strategy and enabling it to sew up its grip on the social web. (See, for e.g., Facebook’s 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.)
Meta hasn’t faced much legal blo

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