ACCC ALLEGES FACEBOOK MISLED CONSUMERS WHEN PROMOTING APP TO 'PROTECT' USERS' DATA

摘要

Australia’s competition watchdog the ACCC has instituted proceedings in the Federal Courtagainst Facebook and two of its subsidiaries for false, misleading or deceptive conduct whenpromoting its Onavo Protect mobile app to Australian consumers.Onavo Protect was a free downloadable software application providing a virtual privatenetwork (VPN) serviceThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commisssion alleges that,between 1 February 2016 to October 2017, Facebook and itssubsidiaries Facebook Israel Ltd and Onavo, Inc. misled Australianconsumers by representing that the Onavo Protect app would keepusers’ personal activity data private, protected and secret - and that thedata would not be used for any purpose other than providing OnavoProtect’s products.