According to the Wall Street Journal, the Onavo Protect mobile VPN app broke Apple’s updated privacy and data security rules that were introduced in June. These prohibit apps from collecting data from other apps installed on a device for the purposes of analytics or advertising/marketing.
Facebook acquired Israeli analytics startup Onavo in 2013 for between $100 million – $200 million. It was thought that the purchase was related to the company’s data compression tech, but in addition to offering online protection, Facebook uses Onavo Protect to collect information on what other apps customers use.
