"This data was never intended to be collected, never added to our database and never used," OneAudience said, also adding that they updated their SDK to prevent any further data collection. Reacting to the accusations last year, OneAudience published a statement on its website claiming that they never intended to collect any user data. Facebook told ZDNet today that they actually learned of suspicious behavior of the OneAudience SDK from a bug report received via the Data Abuse Bounty program.įacebook launched the Data Abuse Bounty program in April 2018, following the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.
Today's lawsuit comes as Facebook has finished its investigation into the matter. In a blog post at the time, Twitter also confirmed that beside itself and Facebook, the data harvesting behavior also targeted the users of other companies, such as Apple and Google. Twitter was the first to expose OneAudience's secret data harvesting practices on November 26, last year. the country that the user logged in from), time zone, Facebook ID, and, in limited instances, gender," Facebook said. "With respect to Facebook, OneAudience used the malicious SDK – without authorization from Facebook – to access and obtain a user's name, email address, locale (i.e.
"After a user installed one of these apps on their device, the malicious SDK enabled OneAudience to collect information about the user from their device and their Facebook, Google, or Twitter accounts, in instances where the user logged into the app using those accounts," the complaint reads. The social networking giant claims that OneAudience paid app developers to install its Software Development Kit (SDK) in their apps, and later used the control it had over the SDK's code to harvest data on Facebook users.Īccording to court documents obtained by ZDNet, the SDK was embedded in shopping, gaming, and utility-type apps, some of which were made available through the official Google Play Store. 10 dangerous app vulnerabilities to watch out for (free PDF)įacebook filed today a federal lawsuit in a California court against OneAudience, a New Jersey-based data analytics firm.
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