Armed with usage data, Facebook offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. When Snap CEO Evan Spiegel refused, Facebook didn’t ...

Onavo, bought by Facebook in 2013, acted as a VPN, masking a user’s location to “keep you and your data safe.” More importantly for the social network, Onavo’s real value was in sharing ...

Facebook has axed the Onavo VPN app for Android, pulling it from Google Play half a year after it yanked the iOS version from the Apple App Store. While Onavo was technically a VPN app that ...

Some actually track a significant amount of your personal data. Such is the case with Onavo Protect, a VPN Facebook acquired in 2013 that was violating Apple’s App Store policies.

Now it seems, Facebook is ready to shut down Onavo for good. As TechCrunch reports, Onavo Protect for Android will immediately stop collecting data from users who have it installed.

Facebook, however, had been using Onavo Protect to monitor mobile users' activities. Worse, the company had paid users as young as 13 to install a Facebook Research app that was built atop the VPN.

Onavo offers a solution by compressing all your data so you don’t use as much of it. The free iPhone app claims to save up to 80 percent on a monthly data allotment.

Facebook announced it was shutting down Onavo a year ago — in the face of rising controversy about its use of the VPN tool as a data-gathering business intelligence dragnet that’s both hostile ...

The Onavo Protect app did provide users with a free, useful VPN service and it did function properly as an online security tool. There was no allegation by the ACCC that the app did not function ...

Onavo’s stated purpose and its true purpose were at odds, and the Research program went to some length to not inform participants that it was Facebook conducting the research.

As we reported earlier, Israeli startup Onavo is looking to save mobile users money abroad by reducing the amount of data that’s transferred over their network. It’s certainly an exciting ...

Onavo was responsible for gathering important data for Facebook. The VPN app advertised itself as a means of limiting background app data usage as well as offering “a secure VPN network for your ...